Data tools boost US campaigners push for racial equity
Washington DC, US Thomson Reuters Foundation Americans lobbying in support of racial equity can use a data tool launched on Thursday to illustrate inequalities faced by their communities around housing, wages and more. Racial Equity Data Lab draws upon the National Equity Atlas, which provides racially disaggregated data on poverty, air pollution, unemployment, home and […]
The Interview: Rev Efrem Smith on the death of George Floyd and what divides white and black Christians
As protests and unrest broke out in the US in the wake of the death of George Floyd last week, BOB SMIETANA, of Religion News Service, spoke with Sacramento pastor and author Rev Efrem Smith about his response…
George Floyd: America’s racial inequality in numbers
Washington, DC Thomson Reuters Foundation Protests over the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died while in police custody in Minneapolis last week, have spread to dozens of cities in the United States and other world cities. Floyd’s death, at the hands of a white police officer who knelt on his neck […]
US Gospel singer Kirk Franklin says “kumbaya moments” are not enough for better race relations
RNS Gospel singer Kirk Franklin, in a discussion to be broadcast this week on Trinity Broadcasting Network, called on white Christian leaders to move beyond “kumbaya moments” and to speak from the pulpit when black people are the subjects of “social injustice happening in the streets”. Franklin made his remarks on TBN’s Praise show in a conversation […]