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#politics On Wednesday, another member of Virginia's top democratic leadership was revealed to have worn black face when he was younger. That—combined with accusations of sexual assault against Lt. Governor Justin Fairfax—left open the possibility that a Republican could be left in power.

#health Black patients generally receive worse pain management in primary care environments and emergency rooms. Even black children are not treated for their pain to the extent that white children are. Some attribute this to false beliefs about biological differences between black and white patients, including the belief that black people have “thicker skin” and, therefore, do not experience as much pain as whites.

#abroad MANCHESTER, England: British Sports Minister Mims Davies has called in football authorities to discuss recent cases of racist chanting and abuse at matches. Davies will meet in the coming weeks with representatives of the Football Association (FA), Premier League and English Football League (EFL) to address the issues.

#police Metro officers stop African American drivers at a rate more than five times their share of the city’s population, according to a Times analysis.

#hatecrime Each year, ADL’s Center on Extremism (COE) tracks murders perpetrated by all types of extremists. The 2018 Murder & Extremism report provides key insights into the crim es, including motivations behind these violent attacks. 2018 was a particularly active year for right-wing extremist murders: Every single extremist killing — from Pittsburgh to Parkland — had a link to right-wing extremism.

#justicesystem Penn is a historically white institution that still has a long way to go in reducing its own institutional racism and promoting diversity and inclusion across racial and class lines. This means that Penn itself has played a role in supporting a racist system. Many members of the Penn community are insulated from these realities by their own race and class. “Kaepernick hasn’t left. Neither should Penn’s criminal justice reform efforts” published in The Daily Pennsylvanian. The article discusses the need for criminal justice reform and reducing institutional racism in the police force and the criminal justice system. Source The author argues that Penn, as a historically white institution, has a long way to go in promoting diversity and inclusion across racial and class lines. The article also highlights the importance of Colin Kaepernick’s protests against racist police practices and how it should be a wake-up call to the Penn community.

#politics The 35-year-old photo on his yearbook page of a person in blackface and another person in a Ku Klux Klan robe has brought about a stunning reversal of fortune in Northam’s political career and laid bare for the nation just how deeply racist behavior remains interwoven in American culture, institutions and politics. In rejecting calls to step down, the 59-year-old white son of Virginia came across to many African-Americans as displaying a sense of white privilege.

#whiteprivilege #housing In the US, where home ownership speaks to class, African Americans are being denied mortgages at rates much higher than their white peers `As a new year begins and the 2020 presidential election looms closer, our political focus will start to narrow around the issues thought to be most urgent and likely to mobilize voters. One issue surely to be glossed over, if not completely ignored, is the persistence of racial segregation. Even writing it feels off-topic, like referring to an anachronism. We have become so habituated to the ingrained treads of our racial geography that they are unremarkable. When segregation is remarked upon, it is almost always in reference to the histories of public policy and private action that were necessary to the invention of “black neighborhoods” or “white suburbs”. In other words, residential segregation and discrimination in the American housing market are considered historical matters. That the nefarious operations of the Federal Housing Administration have come to light and redlining has become more widely understood have not been enough to generate the urgency necessary to dismantling today’s unjust housing practices. Consider the muted recognition of the 50th anniversary of the 1968 Fair Housing Act. In its time, federal fair housing, which entailed the right to be free of racial discrimination in the housing market, was hailed as the crowning achievement of the “rights revolution” of the 1960s. But the effects of “fair housing” have been imperceptible in large swaths of the country, where poor and working-class African Americans live in racially segregated enclaves. The reluctant celebrations of the Fair Housing Act’s milestone anniversary this past year were rooted in the basic fact that racism continues to pervade the American housing market. This reality was made worse by the selection of the underwhelming neurosurgeon Ben Carson as secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Carson has characterized the formal objectives of the Fair Housing Act, including the affirmative pursuit of racially and ethnically mixed communities, as “social engineering”. He has worked to undo the legally mandated responsibility of Hud to not only fight racial discrimination but to pursue integrated communities where it can.

#politics Iowa Rep. Steve King has defended white supremacy, been reprimanded by his party leaders, and been stripped of his committee positions in Congress, yet in his mind, he has done nothing wrong — except agree to an interview with the New York Times.