News From A Colorful Perspective
Commotion erupted at a Queens subway station in New York City on Friday as two NYPD officers pinned down and handcuffed a homeless woman. This event is the latest in a string of police overuse of force since more officers have been assigned to subway stations to fight fare evasion…
“Imposter syndrome” affects about 70% of Americans, according to psychologists Pauline R. Clance and Suzanne A. Imes, who coined the term in 1978, but it can take a particularly heavy toll on people of color. Clance and Imes described imposter syndrome as an “internal experience of intellectual phoniness in people…
A Black tech company against police brutality, RIGHTTHERE Corporation (RTC), has created an app to help users record and report situations of police brutality. The app, RTC Protech, was launched in 2018 and soon will be available for Apple and Android. Maria Watkins, a Birmingham, Ala., native, founded RTC and…
After controversy over whether police should be able to use facial recognition technology, the Board of Police Commissioners in Detroit approved its use but imposed certain limits. Debates surrounding the use of this technology are steeped in both claims of privacy violations and racism. While Detroit police celebrated the move,…
For the first time in U.S. history, people of color, in particular women of color, are the majority of prime working-age hires. “Prime working-age” is between 25 and 54 years old, according to the Washington Post’s analysis of Labor Department data. The department began collecting the data in the 1970s….
National Suicide Prevention Week runs from Sept. 8–14 to raise awareness about suicide and the resources available to help those struggling with mental health crises. However, certain demographics seem to consistently slip through the cracks of mental health education, advocacy and care. People of color in the United States suffer…
(Photo: YouTube screenshot) It has already been an eventful Pride Month. Eugene Lee Yang, a 33-year-old queer choreographer who is also one of Buzzfeed’s “Try Guys,” just came out as gay on June 15 on Twitter – and with the help of an epic music video. Yang wrote, directed and…
Jordanian American writer, Natasha Tynes, who’s also an employee at World Bank, sent a tweet out during her morning commute to work regarding a Black female employee at DC’s Metro Transit Authority (MTA) eating on the train. That tweet sent Black Twitter into a frenzy regarding people of color and…
An organization that is about human rights seemingly has discriminatory and harmful practices. KonTerra Group, a Washington, D.C.-based group completed a review of Amnesty International with psychologists, regarding the well-being of employees, and found appalling data: “Given Amnesty’s status and mission to protect and promote human rights the number of…
Shonda Rhimes, creator, head writer and executive producer of “Grey’s Anatomy,” shared a video of the star of her show, Ellen Pompeo, talking about how white people need to be advocates for diversity. It’s gone viral with more than 2 million views. “As Caucasian people, it’s our job, it’s our…
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