Non-Profit, Government

A Latina businesswoman in Oregon, Maria Garcia filed a lawsuit alleging the Oregon Legislature Emergency Board acted unconstitutionally when it declared that $62 million of a $200 million government fund to help small businesses hit by COVID-19 could only go to black-owned businesses or black families. Garcia, owner of a business called Revolución Coffee, had …

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A black Jewish woman who served as inclusion officer at the world’s leading children’s book writer’s group, April Powers was forced out after she didn’t mention Islamophobia in an article she wrote about rising cases of criminal antisemitism. Powers had been Chief Equity and Inclusion Officer at the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators …

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