March 15, 1933, Brooklyn, NY – September 18, 2020, Washington, DC Distinguished Judiciary and Community Leaders Praise the Life and Legacy of U.S. Supreme Court Judge “Humanity is needed in all areas of America’s legal systems.  Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a justice of great intellectual jurisprudence, wisdom and fortitude, brought the qualities of kindness, compassion and empathy to bear […]Read More

Mayor Bill DeBlasio’s  multi-borough “Countdown to our Future” kicked off a two-week campaign, September 17, to increase self-response rates and encourage New Yorkers to open up to door-to-door enumerators in New York City.  He is supported by City officials, elected officials, and major citywide community advocates and leaders who are mobilizing New Yorkers to obtain a complete […]Read More

Local to National – Message from San Francisco on Census by Rosina Ghebreyesusfor the San Francisco Bay View (8/20)More and more youth are stepping up to get their families counted in the 2020 census. Talking with a few young Frisco natives, new perspectives are gained on the dynamics of growing up in hard-to-count communities.For most […]Read More

By Jim Saksaand Michael MacagnoneCQ-Roll Call (TNS) WASHINGTON — The coronavirus has hit people of color harder than white households, causing higher rates of infection, hospitalizations, deaths and, as a new survey has found, financial despair. Black, Latino and Native American households reported disproportionately high income loss, financial problems and housing insecurity in a poll […]Read More

COVID-19 Deaths by Race and Ethnicity in the U.S by APM RESEARCH LAB STAFF Our ongoing Color of Coronavirus project monitors how and where COVID-19 mortality is inequitably impacting certain communities—to guide policy and community responses to these disproportionate deaths. The coronavirus has claimed more than 195,000 American lives through Sept. 15, 2020—about 24,000 more […]Read More

By Benjamin Kail President Donald Trump, who claimed that COVID-19 was under control and would “disappear” as the pandemic continued to spread across the country, acknowledged to journalist Bob Woodward that he knew early on the virus was far deadlier than the flu, even as he admittedly downplayed the threat facing the American public. According to an interview on […]Read More

Throughout this spring and summer, President Donald Trump denied any knowledge of the seriousness of the novel coronavirus and its effect on the nation, even as news reports of the contagion’s devastating impact on Black and Brown populations increased. He railed against his own scientists and ignored their reports. He urged his followers to attend […]Read More

General Counsel, National Action Network Part II of II“… the history of America is based in their oppression of black people …” OUR TIME PRESS: When Rev. Sharpton said, doors had to be opened (at the August 28 Commitment March in Washington, D.C. What doors need to be opened, and who open them? Michael Hardy: […]Read More