Legislation signed into law by President Joe Biden in the spring of 2021 was supposed to bring debt relief to socially disadvantaged farmers. A little over a year later, blocking lawsuits threaten the program to accelerate a long-running decline in the number of Black-owned farms. “It’s leaving people in bad shape,” John Boyd Jr., the…
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For decades, rancorous debate about the ruling has often been dominated by politics. Ethics garners less attention, although it lies at the heart of the legal controversy. As a philosopher and bioethicist, I study moral problems in medicine and health policy, including abortion. Bioethical approaches to abortion often appeal to four principles: respect patients’ autonomy;…
Have you ever been in a meeting or at an event where you were the only person of color, the only woman, the youngest, or the only ……? You fill in the blank. How did it make you feel? How did you respond? In the many instances when I found myself in that position of…
Two years since Corporate America’s $ 50 billion promise to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), the question on many people’s minds is whether companies have actually made progress towards their commitments. Have we seen significant changes demonstrating impact? Americans are looking for action. New survey research by JUST Capital and SSRS shows that 92%…
Activision Blizzard Inc. shed light on its response to allegations of sexual harassment and discrimination in a regulatory filing Thursday, which slammed sections of the media and California’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing, or DFEH. “Over the years the company has appropriately disciplined and exited employees to ensure that our practices match our policies,”…
The economy is failing American women. That’s the message multiple speakers conveyed – sometimes through tears – to the House Ways and Means Committee during a hearing Wednesday, decrying what they described as the country’s lack of paid leave, its broken care economy, and rising costs. In his opening statement, Democratic Chairman Rep. Richard Neal…
California released a first-of-its-kind report Wednesday laying out the case for reparations to the descendants of US slaves, along with preliminary recommendations about what that compensation might look like. The report, released by a nine-member reparations task force, details California’s history of participation in white supremacy through slavery and subsequent government policies and actions that…
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