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Digiday
5 months ago
Marketing

Spill co-founder Alphonzo Terrell on attracting advertisers to marginalized social communities

Advertisers are considering abandoning Twitter due to Elon Musk's actions and an increase in anti-semitic posts on the platform.
Spill, a social media platform launched by former Twitter employees, aims to create a safe space for marginalized communities and provide opportunities for brands to engage. [ more ]
www.theguardian.com
5 months ago
Health

Anti-LGBTQ+ laws are impeding elimination of Aids, UN says

Anti-homosexuality laws hinder access to health services and worsen the HIV epidemic, especially in countries with criminalized same-sex relations.
Stronger leadership and investment in combating anti-rights narratives are needed to address the HIV crisis. [ more ]
Chicago Tribune
5 months ago
Education

Report: Educator workforce shortages worse in special ed

Teacher shortages disproportionately affect special education and bilingual teachers.
Rural areas and disadvantaged areas are more impacted by teacher shortages. [ more ]
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
5 days ago
Artificial intelligence

What Can Go Wrong When Police Use AI to Write Reports?

AI-generated police reports could perpetuate inaccuracies and biases, raising concerns for marginalized communities. [ more ]
designboom | architecture & design magazine
1 week ago
Design

the vatican pavilion takes shape within a women's prison at the venice art biennale

The Holy See Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2024 focuses on human rights and marginalized individuals within a female prison, featuring works by notable artists. [ more ]
designboom | architecture & design magazine
3 months ago
Design

R.I.P. germain's facade and storefront sculptures shed light on marginalized communities

R.I.P. Germain: Avangarda is the artist's debut exhibition in the US
The show explores 'false fronts' and alternative spaces created by marginalized communities [ more ]
www.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago
Writing

I was brought up among giants': Gillian Slovo on her revolutionary parents and her mother's murder

Grenfell play resonates with American audience, highlighting universal themes of government failures and marginalization. [ more ]
www.npr.org
2 weeks ago
Social justice

States find a downside to mandatory reporting laws meant to protect children

Mandatory reporting laws have expanded to cover various types of maltreatment, leading to concerns of unfounded reports disproportionately affecting marginalized families. [ more ]
Fast Company
3 weeks ago
Education

Growing vegetables, cultivating minds

Poor nutrition in marginalized communities affects children's health and school performance. [ more ]
PinkNews | Latest lesbian, gay, bi and trans news | LGBTQ+ news
3 weeks ago
LGBT

Doctor Who star Ncuti Gatwa slams government attacks on trans people

The UK government is using trans people as scapegoats for its failures, causing an increase in hate crimes and hostility towards marginalized communities. [ more ]
Truthout
1 month ago
Coronavirus

Sentenced to Death by COVID - How US Prisons Became an Epicenter of the Pandemic

Ending the COVID-19 'public health emergency' had concrete negative effects like hindering access to free testing.
Policies could have been implemented to make the pandemic less deadly, such as prioritizing vulnerable populations and providing income for people to stay home. [ more ]
Streetsblog
1 month ago
San Francisco

How Feds Can Help End Racially Biased Policing on the Roads - Streetsblog USA

Disincentivize pretextual stops for minor infractions to reduce police violence against people of color on American roads.
Federal transportation policies encourage troubling practices that lead to deadly stops with devastating consequences for marginalized communities. [ more ]
Los Angeles Times
1 month ago
Los Angeles

Cesar Chavez's family wants nothing to do with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s presidential campaign

The close ties between the Chavez and Kennedy families in the past represented hope and aspirations for marginalized communities.
Kennedy Jr.'s current use of Cesar Chavez's name and image in his campaign has caused outrage among Chavez family members. [ more ]
San Francisco Bay Times
1 month ago
SF LGBT

Simon Tseko Nkoli: 'The Personal Is the Political' - San Francisco Bay Times

Opposition to apartheid and oppression
Advocacy for human rights and equality [ more ]
San Francisco Bay Times
3 months ago
SF LGBT

Lit Snax 1.26.24 - San Francisco Bay Times

Camp! offers an historical survey of the camp sensibility and its cultural significance.
By Any Other Name is a historical novel that combines elements of murder mystery and queer romance.
Witchcraft examines the history of witchcraft trials and the persecution of marginalized individuals. [ more ]
San Francisco Bay Times
5 months ago
SF LGBT

Recommitting to Realizing a World Without AIDS - San Francisco Bay Times

AIDS is still destroying lives, particularly in marginalized communities where lives are undervalued and underserved.
The healthcare system does not treat everyone equally and access to healthcare is unequal. [ more ]
www.hamhigh.co.uk
2 months ago
London

'This is the last chance' - Protest over plan to shut maternity unit

Maternity unit closure impact on marginalized backgrounds
Potential widening of health inequalities due to closure of specialist services [ more ]
Privacy professionals
Electronic Frontier Foundation
2 months ago
Privacy professionals

Four Voices You Should Hear this International Women's Day

The impact of the digital age on freedom of expression worldwide is significant.
Technology can play a key role in ensuring safer online spaces for marginalized communities. [ more ]
www.theguardian.com
3 months ago
Privacy professionals

Facial recognition cameras in supermarkets targeted at poor areas' in England

Facial recognition cameras used by Southern Co-op disproportionately target poorer areas.
Privacy rights groups raise concerns about the targeting of marginalized communities.
Surveillance is more intensely focused on minorities and disadvantaged individuals. [ more ]
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www.npr.org
3 months ago
Health

'Blindspot' podcast offers a roadmap of social inequities during the AIDS crisis

The podcast 'Blindspot: The Plague in the Shadows' revisits the early years of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and focuses on overlooked communities
The podcast highlights the experiences of healthcare workers who cared for patients with HIV/AIDS [ more ]
The Atlantic
3 months ago
Books

The Human Face of American Decline

Alex Kotlowitz recommends books that manage to operate at a human scale while arriving at bigger truths.
Many authors have adopted Kotlowitz's approach to depicting social issues from the ground up. [ more ]
Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly
4 months ago
Environment

Should We Build New Homes in a Burning World? - Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly

The increase of new industries in Casa Grande, AZ is creating a need for workforce housing, but the city faces water supply challenges due to a drought and climate change.
Climate change disproportionately impacts marginalized communities and different regions of the world, with people living in poverty and people of color facing greater fallout. [ more ]
www.fastcompany.com
4 months ago
Environment

Stop talking about the climate crisis, and start talking about the climate opportunity

Climate change disproportionately affects low-income and marginalized communities who are least equipped to adapt and recover.
For communities facing existing crises like poverty and conflict, climate change can feel secondary or abstract. [ more ]
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