A new Pew Research Center analysis of Census Bureau data finds that the “post-Millennial” generation, which are those born after 1996, “is already the most racially and ethnically diverse generation, as a bare majority of 6-to 21-year-olds (52%) are non-Hispanic whites.” The only population of youth that has grown substantially…
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Democracy in Color's Steve Phillips Shares His Perspective on Midterm Elections
By Keka Araujo and Sheryl Estrada There’s a multicultural progressive New American Majority that made its voice heard in Tuesday’s midterm elections, according to Steve Phillips, a national political leader and civil rights lawyer. Phillips, author of New York Times bestselling book, Brown Is The New White, and founder of…
Steve Phillips: The Revolutionary Implications of Stacey Abrams' Victory
By Steve Phillips (Originally Published on TheNation.com) “The Rainbow Coalition is like a quilt—many patches, many pieces, many colors, bound by a common thread.” I was in Atlanta, Georgia for the 1988 Democratic National Convention listening to Jesse Jackson describe his vision for how a multiracial and explicitly progressive coalition…
Brown: How the Democrats Won in Alabama
Civil rights attorney Steve Phillips, author of the New York Times bestselling book “Brown Is the New White,”told some of the nation’s top thought leaders and corporate executives committed to diversity and inclusion that a “New American Majority” is “transforming all manners of modern society.” Phillips was the keynote speaker…
Multiracial, Multiethnic Babies on the Increase in U.S.: Study
In 2015, about one-in-seven, or 14 percent of, children in the U.S. under the age of one were multiracial or multiethnic, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of Census Bureau data. The rate is three times greater than it was in 1980. The analysis, which was published Tuesday, includes…
Why Courting White Voters Will Not Save the Democratic Party
A key factor that contributed to the Democratic Party’s loss in the presidential election was its failure to engage minority voters. And trends indicate that this will only become more important for the fate of politics in future elections. A Pew Research Center study revealed last week that 2016 was…
Steve Phillips Explains to Corporate Executives Why 'Brown is the New White'
Civil rights attorney Steve Phillips, author of the New York Times bestselling book “Brown Is the New White,”told some of the nation’s top thought leaders and corporate executives committed to diversity and inclusion that a “New American Majority” is “transforming all manners of modern society.” Phillips was the keynote speaker…