Tag Archives: Race and ethnicity

BEIJING (AP) – China’s government warned Washington on Wednesday not to boycott next year’s Winter Olympics in Beijing after the Biden administration said it was talking to allies about a joint approach. …

United Airlines began accepting applications for its flight academy on Tuesday, as part of an effort to hire 10,000 pilots by 2030 as more of its airmen reach the federal mandatory retirement …

An Asian-owned convenience store in Charlotte, North Carolina, has been vandalized by a man wielding a metal pole and yelling racial slurs. By BEN FINLEY Associated Press April 4, 2021, 1:47 am …

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Prosecutors in Seattle and San Francisco have charged men with hate crimes in separate incidents that authorities say targeted people of Asian descent amid a wave of high-profile …

Democrats have seized on Georgia’s new voting restrictions to focus attention on the fight to reform federal election laws, setting up a slow-building showdown that echoes the civil rights battles of half …

BOSTON (AP) – Kim Janey, who as a child had stones thrown at her school bus during Boston’s era of desegregation, marked her historic rise as the first woman and first black …

Beyond the pandemic: the London Underground struggles to stay the course By JILL LAWLESS March 24, 2021 GMT https://apnews.com/article/business-pandemics-race-and-ethnicity-coronavirus-pandemic-london-35dab1435cf3cee0446e7ad76b38d310 LONDON (AP) – When London came to a halt when a nationwide coronavirus …

WASHINGTON (AP) – In a speech in the Georgia State Senate last week, Michelle Au implored her colleagues to “stand up” to the rising hatred against Asian Americans. during the pandemic. A …

ATLANTA (AP) – A man who survived the shooting that killed his wife at a massage business in the Atlanta area last week said police detained him in handcuffs for four hours …

A Long Island mother says the white principal at her son’s Catholic school forced the 11-year-old black student to kneel while apologizing and later explained that the punishment was “an African way.” …