WEEKLY NEWSLETTER
NUMBER 9
OCTOBER 11, 2021
Snapshots, October 4 - 10 COVID RECOVERY SHOWS UNEVEN PLAYING FIELD FOR BLACKS Although millions of Americans have returned to work as the U.S. recovers from a 19-month COVID19 pandemic, African Americans and those without college degrees continue to suffer. In addition to the usual handicaps - inadequate education, lack of access to the internet and health care - these twin groups also face a still-sluggish job market, where hiring has slowed, supply chain issues have worsened, inflation remains high and consumer sentiment plunged in August and remains near its pandemic-era low. At this point, 8.4 million Americans are still actively looking for work and another 5 million have given up on finding work and have dropped out of the labor force completely. Many of these are less-educated Americans and black women of all education levels. The black unemployment rate, at 8.8%, remains nearly double the white unemployment rate.
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ), stalemate source
African Novelist Wins 2021 Nobel Prize For Literature Novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah has won this year's Nobel Prize For Literature “for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents”. The 73-year-old native of Zanzibar, Tanzania, whose first language is Sawhili, has lived in the UK since the late 1960s. He is the author of 10 novels and a number of short stories, and recently retired as professor of English and postcolonial literatures at the University of Kent, Canterbury.
Black California Family's Stolen Property Possibly Restored After 97 Years
In a boost to the case for black reparations, the descendants of Charles and Willa Bruce may be allowed to reclaim a Manhattan Beach resort owned by the couple that they were forced to sell for next-to-nothing in 1924 after continued harassment and institutional racism by the Ku Klux Klan. Now run as a lifeguard center, the property, located in Los Angeles County and valued at $75 million, will revert to their family once the state legislature passes a bill removing restrictions on the transfer of the property, now owned by the county.