‘We need one another’: Communities of color unite against injustice

Emma Tang, a Taiwanese American student at New York University, was sitting outside a Chinese restaurant last October, eating with her friends, when a white man approached her from behind and hit her over the head with a dirty bed sheet.

Shocked – and despite her friends saying they thought she was a victim of a hate crime – Ms. Tang never reported the incident to police. Instead, she took to Instagram, and her 84,000 followers.

The state of white privilege in 2019

In October, a Latina author was talking about white privilege at a Georgia college when a student confronted her about whether she had the authority to talk about race on campus. Students at the same university later burned the author’s book. Videos show students gathered around a flaming grill on campus, watching and laughing as ripped-out pages of the novel burn.

The book-burning came after Jennine Capó Crucet spoke to students about her novel, Make Your Home Among Strangers, which is required reading for some freshman classes on campus. Crucet’s novel tells the story of a Cuban-American girl who is accepted into an elite university and struggles in a predominantly white environment. The tense and hostile interaction happened during the question-and-answer session, when one white student took the microphone and accused Crucet of being racist toward white people.

The crushing effects of Trump’s abortion ‘gag rule’ on healthcare

Rhea Beddoe says Planned Parenthood saved her life. 

In 2005, she was in her early 20s and working at a prestigious law firm in New York, and she had access to premium healthcare when she went in for a yearly Pap smear. Her OB-GYN had bad news.

“You mostly don’t hear anything after you hear the word ‘cancer,’” Beddoe told the Daily Dot. Not only was her Pap smear abnormal, but she had precancerous cells—the worst kind, CIN 3—that could turn into cervical cancer. Her doctor treated her right away, removing the precancerous cells. Beddoe was told to come back in six months for a follow-up to make sure the cells had not returned.