Naomi Ishisaka, Seattle Times: What this crisis has also exposed in the past week is the way in which people, guided by their hearts, are stepping up to support each other in extraordinary ways. People like Yadesa Bojia, who is a Seattle-based artist and University of Washington graphic designer. Bojia recently became alarmed after talkingContinueContinue reading “This Week in White Supremacy, Week #117: Coronavirus sparks an epidemic of people helping people in Seattle”
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This Week in White Supremacy, Week #116: ACA 5 Introduced to Repeal Proposition 209
Assemblymember Dr. Shirley Weber (D–San Diego) and a broad coalition of colleagues and business leaders on March 10 announced ACA 5, which would initiate a ballot initiative to officially repeal Proposition 209, California’s ban on affirmative action. An antiquated law passed under Republican Governor Pete Wilson, Proposition 209 has prevented equal opportunity programs in publicContinueContinue reading “This Week in White Supremacy, Week #116: ACA 5 Introduced to Repeal Proposition 209”
This Week in White Supremacy, Week #115: Meet The First Black Rhodes, Truman, and Udall Scholar
Confronting A Legacy, and Creating Her Own: Meet The First Black Rhodes, Truman, and Udall Scholar (The Root) – Wanjiku “Wawa” Gatheru shares the importance of grappling with the Rhodes legacy as an African person, what it means to make space for other marginalized voices in environmental spaces, how she feels being the first blackContinueContinue reading “This Week in White Supremacy, Week #115: Meet The First Black Rhodes, Truman, and Udall Scholar”