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Contributing writer, Anti-Racism Daily. Nia Norris (now Nia Springer-Norris) is a writer and educator in the Chicago area who writes about technology, media, culture, and racial equity. Her work has appeared in SUCCESS, Business Insider, Next City, and Kirkus Reviews, and she teaches journalism and communications courses.
Issues written by Nia Norris for Anti-Racism Daily, newest first.
14 issues · 2021–2023
The gig economy includes a cheap workforce contributing to the efficiency of valuable technology, including ChatGPT.
It is important to not only talk about race and identity but also have conversations with children about racism.
Although Congress passed the VOCA Fix Act to restore the Crime Victims Fund, domestic and sexual violence crisis centers are still struggling to recover.
Historically, the term “white passing” was used to disenfranchise Black Americans with white ancestry.
As many traditional news organizations have closed down operations, many communities exist in news deserts with minimal to no news coverage.
The opening of the first legalized safe consumption site in New York is allowing people who use drugs a safe place to consume drugs in the hopes of preventing overdoses.
While reports of "government-funded crack pipes" are false, harm reduction activists support adding them to safe smoking kits.
New discoveries of unmarked graves bring ongoing injustices against Indigenous communities to the present.
The Department of Homeland Security announced that they would start considering migrants whose cases were terminated by the Trump administration.
Last week's Supreme Court's decision re-ignites conversations about student-athletes and the role of race and equity in collegiate sports.
Less than a quarter of community college students who take remedial courses go on to complete college-level courses. At four-year colleges, just over a third of students assigned to remediation continue to take college-level courses. The majority of students assigned to remediation at two-year colleges or universities will not graduate within three years or six years, respectively (Complete College America). Students who take remedial courses pay just as much for these courses as students who begin with college-level courses and are often left with student loan debt for coursework that did not lead to a degree.
Historically, drug policy has been written with racist intentions and fueled by hysteria over the war on drugs. This has led to racial disparities in sentencing for crack cocaine possession.
From its beginnings to modern-day, cameras and photo technology have favored lighter-skinned subjects.
Despite the strong evidence, the GOP has continued to rail against these protests by proposing legislation to prevent citizens from utilizing their constitutional right to protest. In the 2021 legislative session, 81 anti-protest bills have been introduced in 34 states – twice as many as previous years. Often veiled as “anti-riot” bills, these statements exacerbate the hateful rhetoric that demonstrations against police brutality and violence are an act of violence in themselves (NYT).