According to a March 2023 report in Sampan, anti-Asian violence in the United States has not only taken an emotional and physical toll on the Asian-American community: it has had an economic impact as well. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Asian community has suffered xenophobia and hate…
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On November 30, 2022, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) officially declared May 15, 2023, as “Nakba Day,” the Palestine Chronicle reported in December 2022. As the largest democratic institution in the world, the United Nations’ recognition of Nakba Day undercuts repeated attempts by Israel to erase the history of…
Since their development in the 1980s, HIV criminalization laws in the United States have not evolved to keep up with scientific advances that treat AIDS/HIV. Black people and women are disproportionately affected by these statutes compared to white men, according to UCLA’s Williams Institute, which studies sexual orientation, gender identity,…
Namibia’s environmental minister has approved a plan for mining that will pose a threat to the endangered black rhino, according to a March 2023 article in Mongabay. The activity of the mine has caused the local population of black rhinos to begin migrating, which is not only causing a decrease…
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In February 2023, Pink News published an article about Henry Edward Tse’s historic legal victory in Hong Kong, which declared that trans people should be able to have their genders put on their ID cards without gender-affirming surgery; still, he and the rest of the trans community in Hong Kong…
Hawaii resource officials abandoned the 30×30 conservation goal in January 2023. Marcel Honore’s February 2023 article, “Hawaii’s Innovative Plan To Manage Marine Resources Is Being Quietly Rolled Back,” reported on the decision, which was not publicly announced, for the Honolulu Civil Beat. Hawaii’s Holomua Marine 30×30 initiative, first announced in…
A French petroleum company has displaced over 400 Congolese farmers as part of a move to “reforest” 40,000 hectares of land in the Lefini land reserve of the Batéké savannah, according to a December 2022 report by SourceMaterial. SourceMaterial and Mediapart, both local investigative journalism outlets, interviewed local farmers who…
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) recorded a substantial rise of 200,000 unionized workers in the United States from 2021 to 2022, of which almost all included workers of color, the New Republic reported in March 2023. According to BLS, unionized workers of color increased by 231,000 last year, while…
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The relatively few students and educators around the United States who know about it are praising a new remedy for the mental health crisis. Peer-reviewed studies show Teen Mental Health First Aid training helps students educate teens not only on how to help themselves but on how to help their…
Black Americans are seven times more likely than Whites to be wrongfully convicted of murder, sexual crimes, and drug crimes, according to a September 2022 report by the National Registry of Exonerations, as reported on by Reuters, Essence, and The Innocence Project. This report analyzed 3,200 exonerations for the above…
