Skip to Content

Month: July 2022

‘The gun industry has flooded our neighborhoods’: House hearing highlights assault-style weapons

By Josh Campbell, Kristin Wilson and Lauren Koenig, CNN Gun manufactures selling assault-style rifles have employed questionable marketing tactics, including appealing to White supremacists, “preying” on the masculinity of young men, and running advertisements that mimic video games, according to an investigation by the Democrat-led House Committee on Oversight and Reform. In a hearing Wednesday,

Continue Reading

Mural en honor a activistas migrantes

Mexicali, B.C. (T3).- Mezcla de raíces es un mural que plasma el esfuerzo de los activistas migrantes que pese a las vicisitudes que se han enfrentado ante una crisis migratoria en Baja California continúan apoyando a esta población flotante. El proyecto forma parte de un colectivo que conforman personas defensoras de los migrantes y artistas

Continue Reading

Seattle chapter of bird conservation group dropping ‘Audubon’ from name to confront legacy of racism

Jacquelyne Germain, CNN The Seattle chapter of the National Audubon Society plans to remove “Audubon” from its name to address the racist and white supremacist actions and views of John James Audubon, the ornithologist the organization is named after. Glenn Nelson, the Seattle chapter’s community director, told CNN on Wednesday that part of why the

Continue Reading

DOJ reaches redlining settlement with mortgage lender accused of discriminating against communities of color

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN A Pennsylvania mortgage company owned by billionaire investor Warren Buffett discriminated against communities of color in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware, the Justice Department said Wednesday, in what they say is the first redlining agreement that the department has secured with a mortgage company. Under the terms of the agreement, Trident

Continue Reading