People Of Color

Over the weekend, an Earth Day celebration on Long Island urged the Town of Brookhaven to close the landfill in Yaphank. Residents of North Bellport encouraged their community of color to join them in the streets to talk about “environmental racism” in their neighborhood.

Connecticut’s official health insurance marketplace has started a search for applicants for the second year of its broker academy.

A two-day virtual conference from the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities and the Campaign School at Yale later this month hopes to give people of color the skills needed to run for public office.

With baby formula increasingly hard to find on store shelves, concerns are growing for Black and Hispanic parents and low-income families who have less access to the products — and in some cases, greater need — than their white counterparts.

The report found that New Yorkers who are Black, Indigenous and people of color were disproportionately harmed by the COVID-19 pandemic due to an unequal ability to access affordable health care.

Vanessa Avery is a graduate of Yale and Georgetown University. She became an assistant U.S. Attorney for Connecticut in 2014, and an associate attorney general for the state in 2019.

For some military families who get orders to relocate to a new base, concern about racism can upend family life and careers.

The average income of a Black Connecticut resident is about two thirds of what white residents make. But data shows the gap is much narrower among state employees.

UConn junior Shazeda Khatun and senior Zena Saleh said they were walking to their dorm Monday night when a man screamed racial slurs at them, including the N-word.

A Firebirds Society representative said the city's current recruitment drive allows only a short time for applicants to prepare for the Candidate Physical Ability Test.