Vaccine hesitancy, vaccine logistics, and vaccine inequity. These are some of the biggest challenges facing California and the rest of the country today. As we move quickly to get as many people vaccinated in high-risk communities as possible, it is important to remember that our communities encountered very similar challenges with respect to the 2020...
As vaccines for COVID-19 continue to roll out across the country, communities of color continue to experience vaccine disparities. CSI UCR Director, Karthick Ramakrishnan stated, "The percentage of Latinos who have been getting vaccinated in Riverside County has been going down steadily in recent weeks, especially after the state said only those 65 and older...
The Inland Empire Media Roundtable on Wednesday, Feb. 3, launched an Inland Empire-wide effort to help communities of color get accurate and timely information about the coronavirus pandemic, vaccine distribution, and public safety health measures. Wednesday’s Zoom discussion featured public information officers from Riverside and San Bernardino counties as well as the Riverside County Public...
Asian Americans recorded the highest jobless rates among U.S. women in the last six months of 2020, data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) show.The country lost a net total of 140,000 jobs in December, the first month of job loss since employment opportunities resumed last May.Shockingly, all those lost jobs belonged to women...
Donald Trump, whose presidency officially came to a close last month, deepened divisions across communities with high foreign-born populations by perpetuating a narrative of "good" and "bad" immigrants, critics say. Now, immigration advocates say President Joe Biden will have to act to implement policies to undo that rift. Karthick Ramakrishnan, founder of the civic engagement...
A new executive action confronts the racism Trump stoked toward Asian Americans during the pandemic. A new executive action from President Joe Biden takes direct aim at the racism former President Donald Trump stoked toward Asian Americans, marking a stark break from the discriminatory efforts of the previous administration. As part of a broader package...
A quartet of executive orders signed by President Joe Biden to promote racial equity in the U.S. were welcomed Tuesday, Jan. 26, by Southern California activists, academics and community leaders who see the orders as first steps toward Biden keeping a promise he made at the height of last summer’s protests over racial justice. The...
Paulette Brown-Hinds is the second-generation publisher of Black Voice News and founder of Voice Media Ventures, a strategic media and content creation firm. She also teaches at UC Riverside. Before participating in the Zócalo/Center for Social Innovation event, “ Can Local Media Restore Trust and Destroy Disinformation?,” she talked about her love for the Inland...
The U.S. Capitol attack on Jan. 6 revealed many gaping holes in the foundations of our democracy, including the role of digital media platforms in exacerbating and weaponizing disinformation. Indeed, many of our societal ills – the mainstreaming of white nationalism, losing parties attacking the legitimacy of certified elections, and a growing distrust of electoral...
NEW YORK – Kamala Devi Harris, Vivek Murthy, Gautam Raghavan, Mala Adiga, Vinay Reddy, Bharat Ramamurti, Neera Tanden, Celine Gounder, and Atul Gawande are some of the Indian American names that are blooming more now than at any other time in the innermost circles of the White House and that, too, within weeks after the...
In collaboration with the the Latin Media Collaborative and the UCR Center for Social Innovation, the Ethnic Media Impact report analyzed a survey of 100 ethnic media outlets to understand media outlets in California. "According to the report, California’s more than 300 ethnic media outlets serve at least 38 racial, ethnic, and cultural communities -...
Congress has confirmed that Joe Biden will be sworn in as the 46th President of the United States of America. The path here has been an agonizing wait for many, made more frightening by Donald Trump’s repeated calls for violence and numerous efforts to subvert the results of the November 3rd election. The January 6th...
Close to 240,000 Asian Americans are eligible to vote, around 4% of Georgia’s electorate, and they have increased their voter registration every year for the last three presidential cycles, a Pew Research Center analysis shows. For the Asian American population, the top concerns are health care, national security and the economy, according to AAPI Data...
Dear friends, colleagues, and partners, Yesterday's insurrection in D.C. breached not only the U.S. Capitol, but also much of what we hold dear with respect to democratic norms, constitutional safeguards, and social commitments. Thankfully, as evening came, we saw a bipartisan commitment to reaffirm some of those principles and uphold the importance of truth and...
The Georgia Senate runoff races will be taking place on January 5, 2021. "Though Asian Americans comprise only about 4% of Georgia’s population – a far smaller share than in places like California – they have emerged as an increasingly influential electoral force in this politically divided, southern swing state." Read more to learn about...
Vice President-elect Kamala Harris' place in the White House alongside Joe Biden is a historic development for America. This episode is a special deep dive into the nation's understanding about identity — and how Harris' vice presidency could help change how we talk about race and ethnicity. Guests: Axios' Courtenay Brown, UC Riverside political scientist...
For many Inland people of color, the path to change in 2020 started in the streets,continued to the ballot box and ended in elected office. From city hall to Sacramento and Washington, D.C., Inland Black and Latino candidates candidates won seats and cemented their political power in the Nov. 3 election, bringing diversity and influence...
According to data from the Georgia-based Asian American Advocacy Fund (AAAF), the Asian-American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community is the fastest growing population in the state, with a population that has swelled 138 per cent since 2000 and now totals more than 495,000 people. While the AAPI population comprises around 4 per cent of Georgia’s...
There’s been a huge political shift among Asian Americans moving from the Republican to the Democratic party over the last 25 years, said Karthick Ramakrishnan, a political scientist and the director of the UC Riverside Center for Social Innovation. It’s partly a reaction to nativism in the post-9/11 Republican party, said Ramakrishnan, and partly the...
Ahead of the crucial Jan. 5 Senate runoff election that will decide control of the upper chamber, Democrats are hoping to tap the rising political power of AAPI and Latino voters across Georgia to defeat incumbent GOP Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler and elect challengers Jon Ossoff and Rev. Raphael Warnock. A historic surge...
