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Texas taxpayers shell out millions to defend redistricting maps

by Nancy Marshall-Genzer
Oct 25, 2022
The GOP-approved maps have drawn the ire of civil rights groups.
Kelly Nguyen knocks on doors in Houston's Chinatown, encouraging Asian Americans to vote.
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Banking law rooted in civil rights era gets a 21st century update

by Matt Levin
May 5, 2022
Federal regulators propose new rules for the Community Reinvestment Act, which requires banks to invest in low- and moderate-income communities.
The Community Reinvestment Act, which aims to close the racial wealth gap, may be updated to cover financial firms that don't rely on neighborhood branches.
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Race and Economy

How promises to fix income inequality have played out after elections

by Nancy Marshall-Genzer
Oct 28, 2020
Income inequality is on the minds of many voters right now, much like in the run-up to the 1968 presidential election.
We know from the Nixon White House tapes that he didn't really believe in wage and price freezes to get roaring inflation under control.
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Here's what civil rights leaders want from Facebook

by Sabri Ben-Achour , Rose Conlon and Alex Schroeder
Jul 10, 2020
"It shouldn't be my nonprofit that has to be monitoring and focusing its energy on a corporation that makes $70 billion a year," said Color of Change President Rashad Robinson.
Many of the companies boycotting Facebook are major brands with big budgets.
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Race and Economy

Employees look at their companies' actions — not just statements

by Erika Beras
Jun 4, 2020
Many companies issued statements in support of the anti-racial bias movement. But some employees question internal actions and policies.
Starbucks closed its stores in 2018 to provide anti-racial bias training for employees.
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Divided Decade

In Mississippi, labor rights can also be civil rights

by Scott Tong
Nov 14, 2018
Some workers at the Nissan plant in Canton, Mississippi, are framing their fight for a union and higher wages as part of a longer fight for equality in the Deep South.
After a night shift, Nissan auto factory workers Travis Parks, Eric Hearn and Antonio Ivy gather at a Canton, Mississippi, truck stop.
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While challenges remain for transgender jobseekers, more businesses are reaching out to the trans community

by Adrian Ma
Jun 8, 2018
Looking for a job can be difficult for anyone, but for transgender people, it can be especially tough.
At a recent “Transgender Job Fair” hosted by Cleveland’s Metro Health hospital, the organizers gave away buttons that participants could use to indicate their gender pronouns.
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The problem of governments using facial recognition software

by Molly Wood , Stephanie Hughes and Shaheen Ainpour
May 24, 2018
"They know both the question and the answer," one CEO says.
A display shows a facial recognition system for law enforcement during the NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference in Washington, D.C., in 2017.
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Civil rights tourism sees more demand and destinations

by Renata Sago
Jan 12, 2018
From new attractions in Atlanta to a U.S. Civil Rights Trail, tourism around civil rights history is growing.
Tom Houck runs a three-hour in-depth civil rights tour in Atlanta. It's one of several across the South.
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The Trump administration puts a stop to data mining the pay gap

by Nancy Marshall-Genzer
Aug 30, 2017
An Obama-era intiative would have required companies to report how much they pay workers of different races and genders. The initiative was an attempt to get a better handle on the pay gap. But the current administration says the data demands would put too much of a burden on employers.  Click the audio player above […]
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