Silence is NOT an option – 4/8/21 (4/08/2021)

1) As a proportion of their employment levels before the pandemic, significantly fewer Black and Hispanic women are working now than any other demographic.Hispanic women fell into the deepest hole at a 24% drop in employment at the peak of the job losses.  Read more…

2) The Color of Authority: San Diego police, sheriff’s deputies disproportionately target minorities, data show.
Blacks, Latinos, Native Americans bear brunt of racial biases in local policing.  Read more…

3) Why the Georgia G.O.P.’s Voting Rollbacks Will Hit Black People Hard
The state’s new Republican-crafted law is set to restrict voting access in ways that Democrats and voting rights groups say will have an outsize impact on Black voters.  Read more…

4) To This Essayist and Cultural Critic, the Black Tradition Is Resistance.
Jesse McCarthy’s debut collection, “Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul?,” sees art as not a tool of political power, but a power itself.  Read more…

5) Resources for Coping with Race Related Trauma:

https://www.psychology.uga.edu/coping-racial-trauma
https://www.apa.org/res/parent-resources/racial-stress?tab=3
https://actionnetwork.org/user_files/user_files/000/045/350/original/racialtraumaandcopingbrochure2020.pdf

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.