In The News: College of Liberal Arts

Christian Science Monitor

Sometimes, people have a hard time trying to peg the protest politics of Carla Gericke.

Reuters

How the South Korean band’s fanbase – known as ARMY – raised over $1 million for the Black Lives Matter movement, mostly in just one day.

KTNV-TV: ABC 13

Racial tensions have been simmering since the beginning of the United States.

Latinx Spaces

Between July 8th and July 13th, I had been following the updates because so many of my queer fandom friends were posting hopes, wishes and fears regarding the disappearance of Naya Rivera. Amid the brutal deaths of Vanessa Guillen, Breonna Taylor, and the continued persecution of undocumented immigrant children and adults, I’ve grown weary of grieving the loss of young women of color. A celebrity death, in context, serves as a reminder of the numbing reality that the world expects much of women of color in their life and death, their celebrity and the context of their death giving weight to the energy a greater public exercises in wanting more for them/us.

Week

A whole generation have been “infantilised” and left without “self-sufficiency and intellectual independence” as a result of their parents’ failure to enforce boundaries, according to a new book by a leading sociology professor.

KNPR News

UNLV has created what it's calling the Anti-Black Racism Task Force.

InvestorPlace

Nike Inc (NYSE:NKE) has felt the brutal impact of the novel coronavirus pandemic in 2020. During the worst of the March market meltdown, Nike stock was down as much as 40% from its January highs. However, it has since staged a steady recovery, due in no small part to its strong e-commerce performance. Now trading at over $97 per share, Nike is on track to start posting growth for 2020.

Las Vegas Sun

Mark Padoongpatt seems to be asked this question frequently: Where’s the best place to get Thai food in Las Vegas?

Agencia AIDS

Debates on aging with HIV were featured this week at the 23rd International AIDS Conference. As a result of better access to effective treatments around the world, people with HIV are living much longer than ever before. It is estimated that by 2030, 70% of people living with HIV will be 50 years old or older.

STAT News

There are nearly 20,000 mental health apps that will do everything from tracking a person’s suicidal thoughts to soothing someone experiencing a panic attack. A new online tool from researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center aims to help patients sort through the noise for almost 200 of them — and counting.

KNPR News

A look at creativity in a time of stress, in two parts.

Complex

The summer of 1990 saw a quiet riot speak volumes after Black organizations staged a boycott of Miami’s tourism industry, costing the city between $5 million and $12 million in the first three months alone. And the silence of the Black dollar was only starting to suffocate the city’s economy.