By: Holly Ji
With recent hate crimes against Asian-Americans due to COVID-19 pushing forward more xenophobia and sinophobia, the Asian community not only faces the horrible truth of how we are perceived in America, bordering the line of model minority and disease-carrying aliens, but also the raging anti-Blackness in our community.
Read MoreBy: Yewon Lee
The year is 1932. A young African American man is promised free yearly medical checkups, monetary burial compensation, and hot meals in exchange for his participation in a study by the Tuskegee Institute (today’s Tuskegee University). Having little money and illiterate, he is quick to register for the study unknowing of the details of what that would entail.
Read Moreby Logan Amos
There have always been people who have money and people who don’t. But the gap also affects the next generation. Generational wealth can explain why many minorities are still living in poverty or lesser conditions compared to many white people.
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