Claudette Colvinis an unsung heroine of the Civil Rights movement who protested bus segregation before Rosa Parks did. At just 15, she refused to give up her seat on the bus and was one of many activists who fought for racial equality. 3. Sammie Vance Sammie launched the Buddy Bench projec...
She met her co-author for this work, the Belgian economist who helped create the Euro, Bernard Lietaer, when organizing a national sustainability conference. Lietaer objected to an imposition of a 20-minute time-limit on his talk; it would take him much longer to explain why our monetary ...
Black people were the only" immigrants" who didn't choose to come to America. For hundreds of years, Africans were taken from their homes to be slaves in the New World. The end of the Civil War (37) brought freedom to the slaves in 1865, but blacks still had a lower position in ...
Adding to these barriers, the pandemic, had the greatest effect on people who experience discrimination [72], with inequality and marginality more visible, severely impacting employment for some YW [17,58]. For instance, loss of work hours was more likely to have been experienced for Canadian Y...
Gay neighborhoods, like all neighborhoods, are in a state of continual change. The relevance of gay neighborhoods—originally formed to promote segregation of individuals who identify as sexual minorities—is lately challenged by advances in technology, experiences with pandemics, shifts in generational ...
First was the high cost and the fact that decoders were only compatible with a limited range of high-end TVs that many d/Deaf people could not afford. Second, captioning was only useful for those who were literate. Literacy levels are also significantly lower for d/Deaf people than the ...
There was also a belief that if these different minority groups joined hands in a single unit, they could muster the political force to challenge white dominance.As New Yorker author Tammy Kim observed, “‘people of color’ … helped define a united front against those in power — who were...
Army Gen. Andrew Jackson, who later became president, led the forced evacuation of tribes to the state. Nearly 125,000 lived in lands spanning from Tennessee and Alabama to Georgia, North Carolina and Florida. By the end of the 1830s, few remained. The forced and often fatal journey for ...
perspective, could be an intrusion into private life and a restriction on behaving and being as one wants. At the same time, from the staff's perspective, an open door can be an aid to having a private life and a sup- port of individuals' possibilities to behave and be who one wants...
Latinx, gender-neutral term referring to someone living in the United States who was born in or has ancestors from Latin America; it is an alternative to the masculine (Latino) and feminine (Latina) forms. The word came into usage in the early 21st centu