Greed for gold in California was pushed through violent articles, advertisements, and cartoons. Some even depicted 49ers carrying knives while wielding mining tools.
About 300,000 heavily-armed individuals descended on California to hunt for gold.
Ranches recruited hundreds of Native men for the mines, where they were treated as disposable workers, said Nicole Myers-Lim, executive director of the California Indian Museum.
When members of the Pomo tribe rebelled, the US Calvary murdered them.
So many of these details have remained hidden or ignored.
Holt McDougal, the publisher of the grade school social studies textbook, told Insider in a statement that they’re currently in the process of reviewing these omissions.
The Atlanta shooter still hasn't been charged with hate crimes for the murders of six Asian women.
Federal and state hate crime charges are possible, experts say. But it’s complicated. insider.com/anti-asian-att…
At both the state and federal level, hate crime charges are extremely rare and difficult to prosecute. Most hateful incidents don’t meet legal hate crime standards. insider.com/anti-asian-att…
From March to December 2020, Stop AAPI Hate received more than 3,700 first-hand accounts of anti-Asian hate in 47 states and DC. But here’s why you’re only hearing about such incidents now.
In the late 1990s, two class-action lawsuits on behalf of Black farmers led to the largest civil rights settlement in history.
Years later, Black farmers say the discrimination problems persist. 👇
Only 1.3% of American farmers are Black. Antwain Downs said he can count on his hands how many Black farmers he met when he was a child.
To change the statistics, Downs helped start an organization to mentor younger farmers like Adrian Nelson.
But now, a mixture of low commodity prices, extreme weather, and the pandemic are putting small farm operations at risk of disappearing altogether. businessinsider.com/black-farmers-…
The legal status of cannabis has been in question in the U.S. since people started regularly smoking it in the early 1900s. Here’s a breakdown of the racist origins of marijuana prohibition. 👇
As early as the 1800s, there were no federal restrictions on the sale or possession of cannabis in the US. businessinsider.com/arizona-legali…
In the early 1900s, an influx of Mexican immigrants came to the US fleeing political unrest in their home country. With them, they brought the practice of smoking cannabis recreationally. And it took off.
On #ElectionDay, we are exploring what it’s like to be a Black candidate in 2020. We followed two Black candidates’ experiences running for office this election season. 👇
The primaries saw a record number of Black and brown candidates running for office this year, leading to what will likely be the most diverse Congress ever. businessinsider.com/in-south-most-…
When medical doctor and attorney @DrCameronWebb decided to run for Congress in Virginia's 5th District, the last thing he expected people to question was his appeal to white voters — even among his fellow Democrats. businessinsider.com/cameron-webb-v…