Best of NBC News diversity sections: NBC Asian America, NBCBLK, NBC Latino and NBC OUT from the week of Oct. 26.
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Tamaira Johnson, a registered nurse, saw the rise in anxiety and danger at work that came with the increase in cases of the coronavirus at her hospital near San Diego. But Johnson, the clinical supervisor of more than 65 workers, plowed on in the face of immense uncertainty. "It felt like being in …
James Odametey is both nervous and excited about voting in his first election, but he is concerned that he hasn't seen more messaging about how to vote or overcome voter suppression obstacles faced especially by Black voters. Odametey, a University of North Carolina student who plans to vote for …
In late August, during the second week of school in Burlington, Wisconsin, Melissa Statz heard children in her fourth grade class talking about Kenosha. A couple of students had seen burned and boarded-up buildings in the nearby city, but they didn’t know the details of the protests that filled the …
The federal government is projected to issue record subsidies to farmers across America this year. The cash has been a boon to a significant part of President Donald Trump's rural base, particularly in the run-up to the election next week. However, Black farmers, whose numbers have been dwindling …
As Covid-19 began to prompt states to lock down and issue sweeping stay-at-home orders, Anastancia Cuna had to make one of the hardest decisions of her life. She could either keep the nanny job she has had in the Boston area for the last 20 years or stay home and take care of her daughter, 12 at the …
SAN ANTONIO — Military veteran Miguel Martinez went car to car pointing a digital thermometer at the heads of a few people equipped with masks and sanitizers who, despite a rise in coronavirus case numbers in Texas, were ready to go door to door to ask for votes for Joe Biden. "I feel this is …
Slain Fort Hood soldier Vanessa Guillén told her mother that she had been sexually harassed at the Army base before she disappeared, the mother said on Gloria Estefan's new Facebook show, “Red Table Talk: The Estefans." An Army specialist, Vanessa Guillén, 20, was last seen April 22 at Fort Hood, …
Rufina Rodríguez used to clean about a dozen houses every week before the coronavirus pandemic hit Philadelphia, where she has lived for 18 years. "But when the quarantine started in March, I had no jobs," Rodríguez, 42, said in Spanish. "I couldn't find a job until after June 4, and it was only to …
In the final days before the election, Spanish-language misinformation about Joe Biden's and running mate Kamala Harris' positions on abortion is specifically targeting religious Latinos on Facebook and its messaging service, WhatsApp. Several of the memes about their positions on abortion that are …
Four years ago, Louie Tan Vital received an invitation from her 81-year old grandmother, an immigrant, to join a prayer rally for whom she hoped would be the next president of the United States, Donald Trump. To be respectful, Vital attended, but she didn’t actively participate. “I was incredibly …
Kristi Yamaguchi has been busy during the pandemic. The Olympic-figure-skater-turned-philanthropist has been adapting to California’s remote-learning mandate in both her nonprofit work and her personal life. Yamaguchi’s Always Dream Foundation has been working to help increase the time kids spend …
