NEW BRITAIN– In response to recent attacks and harassment of students of color at Central Connecticut State University, student leaders are planning a solidarity rally for this Wednesday, October 14th, from noon-1pm in the center of campus. Read the full story

(East Haven) Due to numerous complaints of harassment against people of color by the East Haven Police Department, over 130 Connecticut residents gathered together Saturday afternoon on Main Street to demand justice and an end to racial profiling and border patrols*. Read the full story

On Monday July 13, two people from New Haven were detained in East Haven. One was coming from My Country Store, an Ecuadorian owned business on Main Street. The other was coming visiting his girlfriend. Both were taken to jail and turned over to immigration authorities. Since the incident on Monday we have learned of at least five other cases where people were stopped for no other reason than the color of their skin and the streets they were traveling on, then pushed through the inhumane process of deportation. Read the full story

RadioActive hosts a community conversation with Shirene Brown, business owner, loan officer, and real estate agent, and Monique Jarvis, educator and spoken word artist.

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(newhaven-independent) A white supremacist group hand-delivered flyers Saturday night to Latino businesses in East Haven and at St. Rose of Lima, Manship’s church in New Haven.  (full story) Read the full story

For more than a decade now, activists, scholars and researchers have all been saying the same thing: The “crack baby” epidemic, a generation of drug-addicted babies born to drug-addicted women, is a myth — a politically advantageous, racist one at that, with virtually no basis in science.

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