NPR, August 22, 2022, All-Black, All-Female American Airlines Crew Flies From Dallas To Honor Bessie Coleman In honor of the 100th anniversary of Bessie Coleman, the first Black woman to earn a pilot’s license, American Airlines operated a flight out of Dallas with an all-Black, all-female crew.

The New York Times, August 12, 2022, Climate and Tax Bill Rewrites Embattled Black Farmer Relief Program A $4 billion program to help Black and other “socially disadvantaged” farmers that never got off the ground last year amid legal objections will be replaced with a plan to make relief funds available to farmers who have

News-Medical.net, August 11, 2022, Health inequalities amongst ethnic minorities with diabetes have worsened during the pandemic, study shows Existing health disparities amongst ethnic minorities with diabetes have worsened during the COVID-19 pandemic, a new study published in the journal Diabetes Care has reported. Academics from the University of Leicester are urging care services to address

The New York Times, August 8, 2022, In an Unequal Economy, the Poor Face Inflation Now and Job Loss Later Higher-income households built up savings and wealth during the early stages of the pandemic as they stayed at home and their stocks, houses and other assets rose in value. Between those stockpiles and solid wage

The Atlantic, August 10, 2022, How California Exported Its Worst Problem to Texas At the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, the shift to remote work was supposed to ease the long-festering housing crisis in “superstar” metros such as Los Angeles and New York. Prices would fall as workers once tethered to offices in Century City

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, August 8, 2022, A federal complaint accuses Milwaukee of creating ‘containment zones’ where low-income people are concentrated In the complaint filed under seal in February, and unsealed in recent days, property owners James Dieter and Karen Schwenke argue the city has created “containment zones” on the near west side and other areas of the

Politico, August 10, 2022, ‘People will die waiting’: America’s system for the disabled is nearing collapse Private agencies that provide services for the intellectually and developmentally disabled have long warned that, without fresh state and federal funding, they would be unable to provide housing and staff support to the growing number of Americans who need

CBS News, July 28, 2022, U.S. Bank opened fake accounts for unsuspecting customers Minneapolis-based U.S. Bank, the country’s fifth-largest bank with over $559 billion in assets, accessed unsuspecting customers’ credit reports and opened checking and savings accounts, credit cards and lines of credit without customers’ authorization in order to boost sales, the CFPB found in