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Mariel Padilla
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UNC won’t offer tenure to Nikole Hannah-Jones after wave of conservative criticism
Despite approval from faculty and the tenure committee, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist will be the first Knight Chair professor at the university to be denied tenure by the board of trustees.
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House passes hate crimes bill after year of increased violence against Asian Americans
The legislation, which was introduced in March, passed in the House and Senate with overwhelming bipartisan support.
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Supreme Court agrees to hear Mississippi challenge to Roe v. Wade
Justices are likely to rule next summer on whether a ban on abortions after 15 weeks is constitutional.
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Schools are reopening, but for many reasons Asian American parents remain hesitant
More than 60 percent of Asian American elementary and middle school students continued full-time remote learning in March — compared to only 19 percent of White students.
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‘Never being American enough:’ Asian women on living in a country that feels increasingly unsafe
Days before May 1, the beginning of AAPI Heritage Month, a study found that more than half of Asian American women had personally encountered racism during the pandemic.
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‘I feel like I’m drowning’: Women business owners keep hitting new barriers to federal loan aid
Women, especially women of color, are driving small-business growth during a pandemic in which they’ve been hit particularly hard — and missed out on help.
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'We can’t protect them': Mothers on what it means to have Black children in America
Experts say police brutality is a reproductive health issue that can leave lasting imprints on a community’s health.
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Study finds Black women are dying from COVID-19 at three times the rate of both White and Asian men
“This analysis complicates the simple narrative that men are dying at greater rates of COVID-19 than women,” one Harvard researcher said.
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Half a million women entered the workforce in March
As more schools reopen for in-person learning and states lift COVID-19 restrictions, women are returning to work but still remain behind pre-pandemic employment levels.