In The News: College of Liberal Arts

Self

A post-quarantine pandemic reunion with your partner isn’t always as sweet as you’d imagine. After weeks or months of social distancing in separate places, the coronavirus pandemic still remains. This means that every interaction comes with a somewhat awkward protocol. Instead of jumping into each other’s arms, you might open your door and carefully back out of a tiny hallway to let your lover into your home. You might watch as they take off their mask and wait patiently for them to wash their hands for 20 seconds—humming “Happy Birthday” to yourself. Then, you smile at each other, or, your heart starts pounding so hard that you don’t know what to do.

Parents Magazine

As the U.S. faces a reckoning on racial injustice, people from coast to coast are taking to the streets to protest the killing and injury of unarmed Black people at the hands of police officers. This surge of activism has ignited calls for government to rethink law enforcement in our country. In turn, "defund the police" has quickly become a hot button phrase.

Newswise

Kendra Gage describes implicit bias as the stories we make up about people before we get to know them. It’s a practical and personal definition from an historian who studies what some consider an unlikely, even unpopular, topic for a white professor — the civil rights movement.

Newswise

UNLV political science professor John Tuman is available to speak about the findings of his new study examining the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on labor market conditions in Nevada.

KLAS-TV: 8 News Now

Tyler Perry, a UNLV assistant professor of African American studies, is weighing in on what’s happening in the wake of the police shooting of Jacob Blake.

Nevada Independent

Initial claims for Nevada’s standard unemployment program hit a new milestone last week, dropping below 10,000 in a week for the first time since business shutdowns began in March after peaking at more than 90,000 early in the crisis.

WCBU

The coronavirus outbreak’s huge impact on business, education and sports continues to be felt, but what about the effect the pandemic is having on the way we dress?

KTNV-TV: ABC 13

The 2020 election is expected to be historic for several reasons. Americans will be casting their ballots in the middle of a global pandemic. And for the first time in our nation's history, Latinos will make up the largest non-white voting block.

KNPR News

For Native American’s in Northern Nevada, a siren that blasts nightly in Minden is a living piece of historical trauma.

Independent

On Monday, former football great Herschel Walker rhapsodised about how Donald Trump had once accompanied his family to Disney World, while senator Tim Scott of South Carolina, the lone black Republican in the Senate, lauded Mr Trump for creating an “inclusive economy”.

Washington Post

Former football great Herschel Walker rhapsodized about how Donald Trump had once accompanied his family to Disney World. Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, the lone Black Republican in the Senate, took the stage to affirm the “goodness of America.”

Wall Street Journal

The K-pop group’s English music video attracts more than 101 million views on the streaming platform within 24 hours.