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4Apr

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What Low-Wage Work Does to Us

A huge share of U.S. employment is in low-wage jobs where workers are pushed to their limits to maximize profits for massive corporations. “Cyborg jobs” is the term Emily Guendelsberger uses in her new book, On the Clock: What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane to describe the low-wage, high-stress jobs that make up a large portion—something like 47%—of employment in the United States. You could say they’re jobs determined by algorithms. Cyborg jobs are designed through data analysis to boost profits by getting the maximum out of workers. Staff scheduling is tight to avoid slow periods, so workers spend much of the day rushing to where they’re needed. Bathroom breaks are limited and timed. Workers’ movements and performance are monitored throughout t...

How White Supremacy Intensifies Summer Heat

4Apr

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How White Supremacy Intensifies Summer Heat

“Like racism, violence and white supremacy, heat is inextricable from the Black American experience.” July arrived steamier than ever with potentially deadly heat waves. The month was followed by equally high August temperatures—and, alas, the heat of Augusts past, which generations of African Americans have yet to escape. Historically, racism has aggravated the summer heat with mayhem, trauma, and even death for Black people. The onslaught of slavery is but one calamity of note. Enslaved Black bodies—considered and treated as property—performing fieldwork from the dawn of day till the sun receded, on meager sustenance, with unsuitable provisions, beneath the crack of a whip was only the beginning. All else that followed forced servitude was par for the course, so much so...

29Aug

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These are the world’s safest cities to live in right now

Asia Pacific cities continue to dominate the list, but the region also includes some of the lowest-scoring metropolises. There's a new surprise member of the world's safest cities club. Washington D.C. has entered the top 10 in the Safe Cities index for the first time, while Hong Kong is a noticeable no-show after plummeting down the rankings. Tokyo took the No. 1 spot in the Economist Intelligence Unit's ranking for the third time running, while Singapore and Osaka maintained their respective footholds in second and third place. Hong Kong dropped to 20th place from 9th in the 2017 edition of the biennial report. Asia-Pacific cities dominated the top 10, with Sydney, Seoul, and Melbourne bringing the region's total to six spots. Amsterdam, Copenhagen and Toront...

4Apr

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Epstein sex abuse victims to face hurdles in seeking compensation

Days before his suicide, the sex offender placed more than half a billion dollars of assets in a trust to protect them. Jeffrey Epstein wrote a will just two days before his suicide, saying he had about $578 million in assets that he placed in a trust, which could complicate efforts by women who say he sexually abused them to collect damages. Epstein, who died Aug. 10 in a federal jail cell in Manhattan, asked that Darren K. Indyke and Richard D. Kahn be appointed as executors, according to a copy of the will filed Aug. 15 with the court in the U.S. Virgin Islands. All of his assets were transferred to the trust as of Aug. 8, two days before he died, assuring that details on how the proceeds are distributed may remain private. The will was first reported Monday...

3Apr

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When ICE Hit Mississippi, Its Citizens Showed Up for Immigrant Families

The Mississippi immigration raid detained hundreds and left children stranded on the first day of school. It also evoked a massive humanitarian response in a state not traditionally friendly to immigrants. When federal agents engineered the nation’s largest single-state immigration raid at multiple chicken processing plants in Mississippi, a scrappy network of immigrant activists knew their work was about to get much harder. Mississippi has never been a hotbed for immigration advocacy, despite a growing immigrant population working in its food processing and hospitality industries. The small band of migrant advocates in the state operate in hostile territory, and they are woefully under financed. That changed last week after the Department of Homeland Security a...

4Apr

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Michael Brown: The Death that Shook Ferguson

The police shooting of an unarmed black teenager sparked unrest and national debate about systemic racism. "We are sick of being teargassed, we are sick of being shot at," a demonstrator yells during street protests in Ferguson, Missouri, in August 2014. "All of these young people deserve respect and justice." A teenager named Michael Brown was shot and killed by a white police officer on August 9 of that year in the majority-black suburb of St Louis - the fourth unarmed black man to be killed by police in the United States in a month. He was shot at least six times, his body left on the street for hours as community members watched on. The racial makeup of that police department, like many others, has not substantially or dramatically changed. Adolphus Pruitt, president of the S...

4Apr

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Five Years After Ferguson Uprising, Still Seeking Justice and Healing

On the fifth anniversary of Michael Brown's death, his family and the town of Ferguson look to the past—and future—to bring about meaningful change. Michael Brown Sr. lies stock-still on his back on the floor of an art studio in St. Louis as an artist layers papier-mache on his arms, chest, and torso. Brown Sr. is a stand-in, the model for a life-size replica that St. Louis artist Dail Chambers is creating to represent Michael Brown Jr.—his deceased son. In the days and weeks that followed, other artists added their own interpretations to the cast, and community leaders, family, friends, and activists affixed messages of remembrance, of hope, as well as photos and tributes to Brown Jr. “Although everybody else has left since your death, we are still here fighting,” one 1...

4Apr

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Nobel-prize winning author Toni Morrison dies at 88

Morrison, a seminal voice in African-American literature, had 'a long, well-lived life', her family says. Toni Morrison helped raise the United States' multiculturalism to the world stage [File: Francois Durand/Getty Images] Toni Morrison, the first black woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, has died at the age of 88, according to her family. The US author, who was a seminal voice in African-American literature, died on Monday night at Montefiore Medical Center in New York, her family said in a statement. "It is with profound sadness we share that, following a short illness, our adored mother and grandmother, Toni Morrison, passed away peacefully last night surrounded by family and friends," they said. "Although her passing represents a tremendous ...

Seeing Color in Green Spaces: How to Increase Diversity in Conservation

4Apr

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Seeing Color in Green Spaces: How to Increase Diversity in Conservation

Black Americans are underrepresented in conservation and outdoor retail careers. To change that, White employers need to apply their liberal values to the workplace. Angelou Ezelio has worked on public land and environmental projects for decades, and started the Greening Youth Foundation to engage youth in the outdoors and careers in conservation. In her new book Engage, Connect, Protect: Empowering Diverse Youth as Environmental Leaders, she describes how changing racial exclusion is harder when White people in organizations and companies are resistant to seeing the problem. Over the last couple of decades working in the environmental space, I’ve discovered that for many Black people, especially older generations, the outdoors conjures a lot of historical negativity that ...

4Apr

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US House to vote on resolution condemning Trump’s racist tweets

Announcement of the vote comes as Trump doubles down on his remarks, insisting his tweets were not racist. US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Monday that the House of Representatives will vote on a resolution condemning President Donald Trump's racist attacks on four Democratic congresswomen of colour. Pelosi said Trump "went beyond his own low standards using disgraceful language about members of Congress" and said his xenophobic and "disgusting" comments cannot stand without rebuttal. Trump on Sunday told four congresswomen to go back to where they came from even though three were born in the United States and all are US citizens. Although Trump did not name the women, his tweets were almost certainly referring to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, I...