Parents at a school in Rochester, N.Y., said Patrick Rausch, a white social studies teacher, had also instructed his seventh-grade students to call him “massah.” Source: New York Times
Posts published in “Race and Ethnicity”
How a Race-Based Medical Formula Is Keeping Some Black Men in Prison
By Gotham Rex on April 22, 2022
The formula, which helps estimate kidney health, has been discarded by many hospitals. But some judges still use it to decide whether to release those potentially endangered by Covid-19. Source: New York Times
Long Covid May Become a Crisis for Black Americans, Experts Say
By Gotham Rex on March 29, 2022
Many of the factors that led to higher rates of infection, hospitalization and death among Black Americans will likely lead to an over-prevalence of long Covid symptoms too, a new report found. Source: New York Times
How Oni and Uché Blackstock, Doctors, Spend Their Sundays
By Gotham Rex on March 18, 2022
The twin sisters, who have been go-to experts during the pandemic, are outspoken on racial inequities in health care. Source: New York Times
Thomas Demakos, Judge in Howard Beach Murder Case, Dies at 98
By Gotham Rex on March 14, 2022
In a notorious 1987 trial over the death of a Black man in New York City, he ruled that defense lawyers could not exclude potential jurors on the basis of race. Source: New York Times
New York City Booster Shot Data Shows Major Racial Disparities
By Gotham Rex on March 13, 2022
The data showed that only about 36 percent of city residents had received a booster shot, and the numbers varied significantly by neighborhood and race. Source: New York Times
Jeffrey Lieberman, Columbia Psychiatry Chair, Is Suspended
By Gotham Rex on February 23, 2022
The post from Jeffrey Lieberman, which described the model as possibly a “freak of nature,” drew negative attention from medical professionals. Source: New York Times
Collegiate's New Dutchman Mascot Is Flash Point in Debate Over Race
By Gotham Rex on February 19, 2022
Collegiate’s Dutchman character got a makeover after students demanded the exclusive Manhattan school “address its own problems with racism and intolerance.” Source: New York Times
Two Teenagers Were Fighting. Only the Black One Was Handcuffed.
By Gotham Rex on February 17, 2022
A video of the fight at a New Jersey mall circulated widely online. Gov. Philip D. Murphy said the appearance of “racially disparate treatment” was “deeply, deeply disturbing.” Source: New York Times
Can This Family Get a Stake in the Big Business of Marijuana?
By Gotham Rex on February 16, 2022
New Jersey’s cannabis law was partly designed to remedy wrongs in a criminal justice system that disproportionately ensnares Black and Latino people. But the hurdles for small-business owners are high. Source: New York Times
Facing a Ban, a School District Fights to Keep ‘Indian’ Nickname
By Gotham Rex on January 29, 2022
Residents in a divided predominantly white town in upstate New York are fighting a state ruling to remove the Native American mascot. Source: New York Times
A Staunch Critic of the N.Y.P.D. Grapples With Deaths of 2 Officers
By Gotham Rex on January 26, 2022
Harlem Councilwoman Kristin Richardson Jordan, who has equated the policing system to slavery, is now considering how to deliver her message in a district mourning for two officers. Source: New York Times
How It Feels to Be an Asian Student in an Elite Public School
By Gotham Rex on January 25, 2022
Stuyvesant, Brooklyn Tech and other schools across the country are under pressure to end entrance exams. Students have complicated feelings about that. Source: New York Times
Rev. C. Herbert Oliver, Civil Rights Activist, Dies at 96
By Gotham Rex on December 11, 2021
He helped focus the nation on bombings and police abuse in Alabama in the 1960s and, later, on problems with the education of Black students in Brooklyn. Source: New York Times
In a Picture-Postcard New York Town, Racist Incidents Rattle Schools
By Gotham Rex on November 27, 2021
When students in Pittsford, a suburb of Rochester, returned to school in the fall, a disturbing video of a white student threatening to kill Black people renewed concerns about racism. Source: New York Times