Within hours of polls closing on the East Coast on the final day of the election cycle this year, newscasters had already begun discussing “the Latinx vote.” Early results out of Miami had shown a surprising turnout for Donald Trump, extinguishing Joe Biden’s hopes of winning Florida. Within hours,
In just a matter of weeks, one of the most controversial presidential appointees will be out of a job. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, a wealthy Republican donor who had zero experience in public education before assuming her role, obtained her position after a historic tiebreaking vote in the Senate by
In most feminist discourse, voice is equated with power and freedom. On the other hand, silence has long been a tool of oppression and is seen both as its equivalent and as the opposite of voice. What this binary ignores is the multi-layered and complex nature of both voice
Approximately 54 million Americans have been forced to go without fresh food during the pandemic, and most of them are Black people and people of color. Socioeconomic stability within already poor and marginalized communities has become even more devastating as people are having to rely on food kitchens and nonprofit
This story originally appeared at NOISE Omaha, and is republished with permission as part of a partnership between Prism and NOISE. Mid-October was already bitingly cold in Nebraska, but Rebecca Mesteth (of the Pine Ridge Reservation), along with some close friends and family gathered in Omaha’s Gifford Park,
President-elect Joe Biden has some ambitious plans for his first 100 days in office, and unlike the agendas of other presidents, it prioritizes several issues that aim to help communities of color, both directly and indirectly. Biden has pledged to make several bold, sweeping actions once he steps into
For BIPOC communities, the overwhelming feeling for many in this year’s general election has been that the only option we have is to settle for something better than Trump. However, there have been many small glimpses of hope to be found amongst all of this chaos. Though they’ve
If you read any new coverage of Florida during an election year, going back decades, you’re likely to hear some version of the same fact: Cubans in Miami lean conservative. It’s part of the basic ethnic logic that gets regurgitated by the media: The idea is that in
Soon after Sharlet Pringle learned the happy news that she was pregnant in early 2017, her doctor warned she was at high risk of having a miscarriage. The doctor urged the New York City bus driver to rest and take care of herself, but working seven-hour shifts driving a
When Alamance County Sheriff Terry Johnson talks about what inspired him to run for the North Carolina office he now holds, he often cites the state’s perhaps most famous sheriff: TV’s Andy Griffith. Johnson, who supported the arrest and pepper spraying of demonstrators at a peaceful get-out-
On Jan. 20, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will make history as the nation’s first ever woman of color to be sworn into the second-highest office in the land. The history behind Harris’ election has been momentarily eclipsed by ballot count delays, a days-long period of intense
Political genius resides within communities of color. As the results of a narrowly won presidential election come into focus, and with them a fundamentally changed electoral map, it’s an inescapable fact that if the United States ever finds its way to a post-Trump, post-white supremacy era, it
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