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Racial Diversity: There’s More Work to be Done in the Workplace
January 24, 2017By Terri Williams Racial diversity in the workplace – from recruiting to hiring to promoting people of color – continues to move at an unimpressive pace. And if LinkedIn’s annual workplace diversity report is any indication, the needle is...
Black men nearly 3 times as likely to die from police use of force, study says
January 23, 2017By Jacqueline Howard, CNN (CNN) - Gregory Gunn. Alton Sterling. Philando Castile. Terence Crutcher. Those are just a few of the names of black men who were killed in high-profile police shootings in 2016. Now, as the year comes to an end, a new...
Where you live can have a lot to say about your health
January 20, 2017By Michael Ollove By many measures, Hawaii is one of the healthiest states in the union. Yet only Mississippi has a higher rate of flu or pneumonia deaths than the Aloha State. West Virginia, usually among the bottom dwellers in state health...
America, Racial Bias Does Exist
January 18, 2017By Jeff Nesbit We clearly have a problem in America. When almost 90 percent of white people in America who take the Implicit Association Test show an inherent racial bias for white people versus black people, that means something. When young,...
National Day of Racial Healing
January 16, 2017Dr. Martin Luther King reminded allies for justice that “the arc of history is long, but it always bends toward justice.” These words were perhaps never more important than they are today. As we remember Dr. King today, let us plan...
Combating Income Inequality: 3 Local, Practical Solutions to a National Epidemic
January 13, 2017By Aaron Mondry (Read...
Study Shows Deep Racial Divide on How Black, Latino and White Cops View Racial Equality, Police Brutality
January 12, 2017By Tanasia Kenney Protesters and police officers seemingly have one thing in common, according to a new survey: Both agree that bad cops aren’t held accountable by the police force for poor performance. A recently released Pew Research Center...
Could Good, Affordable Housing Solve Farmworker Shortage?
January 10, 2017By Tim Henderson SPRECKELS, Calif. — Like many farms facing labor shortages in the West, the Tanimura & Antle vegetable farm in California’s Salinas Valley was in a bind for the 2015 harvest season. It was more than 225 workers shy of the...
Victory for Standing Rock
December 5, 2016In a victory for Native American rights, the earth, and her people, the US Army Corps of Engineers will not approve the Dakota Access Pipeline beneath the Missouri River near sacred burial sites of the Standing Rock Sioux. The decision is a victory...
NCHE Statement on Post-Election Expressions of Hate and Bigotry
November 18, 2016In the week since the presidential election, the nation has witnessed an ugly outpouring of hate. As if a lid had been lifted off of a simmering hot cauldron, a latent but never dormant force of intolerance and bigotry served as a driving force in...