i guess now it's latinx.f you're in texas, for example, you're tejana or tejano, or i guess maybe some of them now call themselves tejanxes. i'm not sure, so i think i just would argue, or would say, because this isn't an argument, you know, we are conscious of cultural shift and cultural change. and it takes a long time for people to adapt to new ways of thinking. it is difficult to conceive, when you're not a scholar, when you're not somebody that is studying and dedicated to looking at terms or ways of identifying, that there's anything more than with you've grown up with, and yet we see this continuously, right? people adapt different language. so, the first use of the x among chicanas and chicanos actually was at the beginning of the word. instead of c-h, it was x, chicanas and chicanos, and that had to do with indigenous. and you know, and so just the same as we continue to havecons members not only in our community but in others. so, you know, there's also a need to push the internal racism that is par

emily: the picture is given darker for latinx and black founders. what did you see?he numbers are appallingly small. we are partners with another organization. less than one percentage point, still closer to zero than any meaningful is going to black and latinx founders, despite the fact that black female entrepreneurs are the fastest-growing segment. there is just really not any -- there has been very minimal movement going forward. i think the industry as a whole, though, is starting to turn their attention towards looking at black female founders, latinx fema founders underrepresented founders in general, finding opportunities to have access to these founders and actually to deploy capital for them. that's part of why all raise exists, is to measure progress in the industry and what we can do to move the needle forward for black, latinx, and other underrepresented founders. emily: as we come out of the fund and make -- -- of the pandemic are, you worried that silicon valley will keep missing out on the talents of women and latinx and black founders? pamela: certai

for the last year exacerbated inequality among black and latinx families holding us back as a countryat is why j.p. morgan chase committed $30 million over five years to address racial inequality focusing on housing and ownership growing black and latinx-owned businesses and access to banking. this will drive real change. we made solid progress since last year and are on track for a five-year commitment. we have refinanced 2 million dollars in mortgages to black and latinx households and 5500 multi family affordable housing units. 60 million investments and 9 minority institutions and are building relationships with communities of color to meet our small business commitments. crenshaw, chicago, minneapolis, and harlem with many more in the coming year. a j.p. morgan chase we consider our global workforce a competitive advantage and people are greatest strengths. 160 thousand u.s. employees work at offices and branches in soon to be 48 states this summer. 30% of new branches are opening in low to moderate income neighborhoods and one third are -- for the third time in five years this y

in 1871, 17 boys and men of asian descent were lynched in los angeles by a mob of white and latinx men in response to an unrelated murder of a white man. in 1875, the congress pass the page act, which was the first federal poll tea. require that these children be segregated. the chinese primary cool was open in 1875. individualing of chinese descent were excluded from accessing health care with the exception of tuberculosis. at the 1904 world's fair in st. louis, a 7-month exhibit of 1,000 individuals from the philippines was derived from the ten distinct ethnic communities was designed to show the group as savages. even as individuals of chinese descent were barred from receiving healthcare at local hospitals, the city and county of san francisco withheld permission for the chinese community to build a hospital to serve its community during the early part of twentyth century. a four-day riot due to racist resentment towards filipino agricultural workers who had helped organize labor unions in the area and who socialized with white women at dance halls; the attack resulted in the murde

and say hey, there's not a lot of difference between latinx culture and african american culture.lood lines are very similar, it's just the language of our colonizer is different. european, white came over here and f-ed things up and that's where we are. we're a part of a product of that and it includes all of us and it shows how ridiculous the racial lines are and the fear of a dark planet. the fear of us all being one. there's a big fear in that, which is why interracial laws were set up for interracial marriages, except for the marriage of pocahontas. that story is wild. you're familiar with that? >> a 10-year-old girl, 13-year-old woman and how disney really just took that and tried to make this a glamour story about a native woman needing saved by a white man to bring peace. the story itself was real nice, i get if you have no idea what went on, but to know the brutal truth of where they took it from is disturbing. i would love to touch on something you brought up. the one thing i don't care if you're latinx or black, if you have been here long enough and that's what you'll h

further, the fresco's also significant in association with the latinx arts communities for its direct lineage. the proposed period of significance is 1931 to one thousand nine hundred seventy-four. diego rivera is one of the most important and famous mexican artists. one of los tres grandes. the mexican mural movement which has been called by some art historians, the only completely original contribution by american artists to the development of modern art. after emerging himself in middle european art during the 15 years he spent studying and living in europe. rivera returned to mexico and began his prolific career painting his monumental paintings on public buildings. his growing fame brought him to the attention of artists, museums, and art patrons in the united states in the mid 1920s. between 1930 and 1934, rivera painted artworks in san francisco, detroit, and new york. his first and last artwork in the united states was in san francisco. first at the former stock exchange in 1931 and his last at the golden gate international exposition on treasure island in 1940. painted in 194

and in napa that includes our latinx community. and our patients at ole, 65% are latinx.felt it was so important to start with the testing and then following testing to get the vaccines to those who are truly impacted by this pandemic. >> and the reason i did it is because of my health, and i also wanted to do it for my family and for those that surround me. i'm very happy. i felt more secure because of the environment. >> we were looking for locations that could support a high volume. we wanted to get as many of our patients vaccinated, as many of our vulnerable community members vaccinated as quickly as possible. so, we looked for locations that were able to have walk-up clinics. that's really critical because not all of our patients have cars or have transportation. and so, in other locations, they've done these big drive-through efforts, which is great. but we decided to move to the napa valley wine train. so, they happened to not be operating because of the pandemic. they have a beautiful lobby. it's wide open. they let us empty it all out and put up our tables, our

in 1871, 17 boys and men of asian descent were lynched in los angeles by a mob of white and latinx men in response to an unrelated murder of a white man. in 1875, the congress pass the page act, which was the first federal poll tea. require that these children be segregated. the chinese primary cool was open in 1875. individualing of chinese descent were excluded from accessing health care with the exception of tuberculosis. at the 1904 world's fair in st. louis, a 7-month exhibit of 1,000 individuals from the philippines was derived from the ten distinct ethnic communities was designed to show the group as savages. even as individuals of chinese descent were barred from receiving healthcare at local hospitals, the city and county of san francisco withheld permission for the chinese community to build a hospital to serve its community during the early part of twentyth century. a four-day riot due to racist resentment towards filipino agricultural workers who had helped organize labor unions in the area and who socialized with white women at dance halls; the attack resulted in the murde

in 1871, 17 boys and men of asian descent were lynched in los angeles by a mob of white and latinx men in response to an unrelated murder of a white man. in 1875, the congress pass the page act, which was the first federal poll tea. require that these children be segregated. the chinese primary cool was open in 1875. individualing of chinese descent were excluded from accessing health care with the exception of tuberculosis. at the 1904 world's fair in st. louis, a 7-month exhibit of 1,000 individuals from the philippines was derived from the ten distinct ethnic communities was designed to show the group as savages. even as individuals of chinese descent were barred from receiving healthcare at local hospitals, the city and county of san francisco withheld permission for the chinese community to build a hospital to serve its community during the early part of twentyth century. a four-day riot due to racist resentment towards filipino agricultural workers who had helped organize labor unions in the area and who socialized with white women at dance halls; the attack resulted in the murde

>> we are devoted to the principle of trying to do a better job for black and latinx community. you're welcome to come and look at the programs. harlem to $30 billion from merck -- for housing mortgages for black full. small business enterprise, getting kissed high school. it's pretty global. -- forgetting kids through high school. it's pretty global. we report it out. that is completely different from the theocracy and -- bureaucracy and bs. i would rather take the time and effort. if there are best practices, we will learn from them. >> we feel we have been very transparent. we just put out another extensive update for our racial equity plan and that covers different dimensions. many of which are verified by third parties. we did not think it was needed to have a separate audit, but it is something that we are looking at. >> i think it's something, and replied to mr. diamond, we've seen something that was not verified. independently to verify what's going on, then it is something that is trustworthy. i think that independent and that's what independent audits are always import

what i would say is that the health network tends to take care of more african americans and more latinx patients than many other health care delivery systems across the city and our vaccination rate of these populations is higher than the city overall, but we absolutely want to follow this trend and we are seeing this disparity and that's why we are really wanting to focus efforts on that particular disparity at this point. >> commissioner chow: no. thank you very much and thank you again for your excellent presentation. >> thank you. >> president bernal: thank you, commissioner chow. vice president green. >> vice president green: thank you so much. this work is incredible and remarkable the way the network has come together. i had some questions also about the numbers. i was talking to one of the leaders at the mission neighborhood health center who was telling me that 35% of the people they see were uninsured and i was sort of confused about the number of information we have and the answer was we've seen quite a few undocumented and mainly latinx patients and so i was wondering how se

as to who has access to the internet and who does not. 86% of asian-americans, 76% whites, 70% of latinxican-american. those disparities add up and contribute so much to the loss of these students. >> and then the loss of the students, you did mention what was it, 155,000 students left public education, some went elsewhere, but others vanished, i believe you said. what do we know about them? >> well, we don't know a lot right now, in terms of the state, what's going on statewide. we get that data in a couple of months but we do know this much about santa clara county, we've got information there. we found out the dropout rate in santa clara county went up from 9% to 14%, but here's the scary part for many respects. among the dropouts, 52% were latinx, asian-american were 20% of them, african-american 14% of them, whites were 13% of them so once again, we're talking about the impact of income and race and how different it is and how some groups get much more advantage and ability to stay with the system than others, and let me tell you, we talked about silicon valley and the myth of silic

in terms of your proposal to add ten beds specifically for a latinx focused manage alcohol program, i think that has a lot of merit as a future iter ration of this program. for now, we envision it at least for the next year, when we move into a permanent model and see what this looks like long term and collect some data on it and for member deshgs antonio, we are collecting data on this. and we'll be excited to share that with you and that we really learned from a year under our belt. especially a year where we're not in the middle of a public health crisis, the pandemic and we see how it works as just an ongoing stable program for the specific group of people so i would ask you to sort of hold that proposal until we have a chance from moving pilot into this relatively small program and with the insurance to you that it's successful and to expand a specific population that use it is the most. >> so member freedenbach, did you have any further questions. i see your hand is still raised. you're muted. >> i was going to see if there was other comments from the members and stuff. i'm a li

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. >> latinx black african american communities, people who have families who have been traditionally if either shut out of the system board. they believe, you know, they have being shut out some new incentives follow a trend we're seeing across the country. >> for example, west virginia is offering $100 savings bonds to 16 to 35 year-old to get vaccinated in maryland will pay fully vaccinated. state employees. $100. some breweries in new jersey are also giving out free drinks while connecticut and washington, dc are doing something similar. ohio takes the cake, though the state set up a 1 million dollars vaccination lottery that will give away the lump sum to 5 lucky residents. >> again. those events run on fridays and saturdays to the weekend of june 5th the next event. is this friday in the bayview. we've included a link on our web site to more information and details about those dates in san francisco. taylor kron 4 news. >> pfizer has begun testing out its covid-19 booster shots. researchers our testing to see if the combination of the vaccine is safe. the study include 600 adult

we have a deep community to train blacks and latinx business owners. what really matters is what happens on the ground. i started my morning meeting with nine local detroit small businesses, eight of which are owned by women, one man, we were glad to have him. almost everyone there was a woman of color. i heard the most amazing stories. regina is from detroit. her business was very local. her wine store was more than a wine store. she created in-store experiences and that is when the about wine -- bought wine. she moved online to instagram and was interviewing winemakers and having cooking classes and giving people those experiences. her business is up this year. what do we believe? we believe when we give small businesses the tools and they are going to survive and that will make communities like detroit continue to thrive. vickie: can you share a couple of other stories. we talked to regina gaines and listening to the business owners during a roundtable was incredible. talk a little more about some of the things, local examples of detroit businesses

. >> for a long time people didn't understand why is jcyc serving black kids and latinx and every asianmmunity, it's because we believe in working together with these communities and that we can make the most progress by working in solidarity, by coming together and really sharing resources. >> reporter: so as many organizations search for ways to bridge cultural gaps, jcyc continues setting an example, bridging cultural differences and fighting for a common good. >> we think that what we have been doing for decades is something that a lot of people are trying to figure out right now, and so i think we can provide a model for how communities can work together. >> reporter: cierra johnson for "today in the bay." >>> it's 4:52. the president of the oakland a's in the middle of aa public relations backlash with local fans. the tweet that's setting off a fire storm as the team looks to go elsewhere if their new push for a new ball park does not come through. >>> happening now, a new cdc report says while contracting covid-19 after being fully vaccinated happens it's rare and just 2% resulte

and interlocking systems oppression, because students don't just come as black or white students or latinx students. they come with everything else, and everything that is happening inside the school building is a result of social inwet quits that are outside, and they just converge in this space. as educators or as people we just expect that the education system is a level playing field or a common ground and that meritocracy will rule and that because a student has access, the outcomes will be favorable, and that's clearly not true. host: we have plenty of callers already for you both this morning on this topic. let me just ask a basic question that was in the news recently. i want you both to answer it, so i'll give you both time to do it. is america a racist country? dr. wilson, do you want to start? guest: south america based in racist ideals. in the ways that this country was founded on unseeded land, european colonizers came. there were thousands -- there were millions of people here already. those people were relegated to the term savages. so thinking about human beings who are the

in 1871, 17 boys and men of asian descent were lynched in los angeles by a mob of white and latinx men in response to an unrelated murder of a white man. in 1875, the congress pass the page act, which was the first federal poll tea. require that these children be segregated. the chinese primary cool was open in 1875. individualing of chinese descent were excluded from accessing health care with the exception of tuberculosis. at the 1904 world's fair in st. louis, a 7-month exhibit of 1,000 individuals from the philippines was derived from the ten distinct ethnic communities was designed to show the group as savages. even as individuals of chinese descent were barred from receiving healthcare at local hospitals, the city and county of san francisco withheld permission for the chinese community to build a hospital to serve its community during the early part of twentyth century. a four-day riot due to racist resentment towards filipino agricultural workers who had helped organize labor unions in the area and who socialized with white women at dance halls; the attack resulted in the murde

the turnout in the api, latinx, and black communities were record shattering.rs honking] [cheering] you showed the importance of voting and why voting matters. yes, protect the votes. we like the joe biden and kamala harris, the first black and asian american vice president, and for the first time in our state's -- in 28 years, our state has elected a democratic ticket. right here in gwinnett, we flipped the seventh district. we looked at carolyn bourdeaux and centre to the statehouse. but we didn't stop there, we continued to fight. we continue to talk to her neighbors. we fought and we elected georgia's first black senator, rev. raphael warnock. we elected our first jewish and enter -- jewish senator, jon ossoff. we made the difference. and now, 100 days later, we see the fruits of our votes. joe biden listened to us. he and his administration is putting our country back on track. the american rescue plan has already changed the course of the pandemic in georgia. it is bringing financial help to families that desperately needed. it's getting businesses like m

larger segment is for asian owned firms followed by latinx owned firms and african-american firms. as a city there was a decline in the number of certified micro and small firms by 14%. when you compare the two time periods, there was a small increase in l.b.e. and m.b.e. remained steady. in the reporting period, the report awarding five contracts for a total of $3.2 million. four of the five contractors were awarded to l.b.e.s including an african-american owned firm and latinx firm and nonprofit. 55% of contract dollars were awarded to l.b.e.s and please note that one contract was not awarded to an l.b.e. it was a federal contract. if we exclude that contract, the port awarded 100% of our contracts subject to the l.b.e. program. the port contract payments was $3.0 million or 14% of payments. the percentage as needed and professional services contract remains strong with over 30% of payments. when you look at construction, you might be wondering why is it only 4%? port staff had to consider this. the tradeoff was eliminating the scope of work, we're able to dispose the material an

latinx residents saw infection rates far disproportionate to their city.accounted for 50% of the cases, but only 15% of the population. in response, the latino task force on covid-19 which has just formed a few weeks earlier partnered with the university of california san francisco to join form this to figure out why the latinx community was so hard hit. owe. from this one study we learned so much about who was getting covid, why, where they were exposed, and what to do to intervene. we began focusing attention on the needs of those who test positive. the mission testing site was launched. the vaccination site is getting more than 500,000 shots in arms per day. one year later our numbers are down and every day we get closer to full recovery. in the recognition of the one year of life and service to the people of san francisco, the city is grateful to the founders of this center. thank you from the bottom of my heart. your work has been heroic throughout this pandemic. the rest, colleagues, i submit. >> clerk: thank you, supervisor ronen. supervisor safai.

we invested in some of the latinx banks. we reached out to cdfis, begged them to help us find more people. we did everything we could reasonably do. we always try to do the best we can. >> well, sir, the numbers show otherwise. and those numbers change in lmi communities when we worked and brought in mission-based lenders such as cdfis, microlenders. i hope that we can do a better job in reaching out to those businesses that are starving to get access to capital. ms. fraser, when we held this hearing two years ago, i questioned your predecessor on citigroup's cdok ratio which was the largest of any bank testifying that day, a remarkable 486 to 1 ratio. can you explain how you're working to reduce this ratio? and in your explanation, can you discuss not only the c.o.o. side of the equation but the median employee compensation side as well? ms. fraser? >> we don't hear you, jane. >> my apologies, thank you very much for the question. yes, i want to start by saying we completely appreciate how fortunate i am for the compensatio

and latinx. by my grandson.en we found that mostly young people mobilized around one existential threat to the future of humanity and the planet. the climate crisis. now there is no doubt that climate has been impacting and continues at a faster speed to destroy lives and mother earth. but i only wish that everyone could see that it is not the only existential threat. we're also threatened by nuclear weapons. and if we understand that climate and nukes are epileptic twins which i think that bob also coined, we referred to him before. we should educate ourselves about both of these threats, so that we will do more to have a future for everyone. the recipe for a good life has many ingredients. so too does the recipe for a safe, sane, and secure future. so i think we need a more holistic view of what makes for peace. we need more ways to continue to mobilize. not rely only on social media. we need to integrate peace education, which is teaching for and about human rights, gender equality, disarmament, sustainable d

latinx residents saw infection rates far disproportionate to their city. this community accounted for 50% of the cases, but only 15% of the population. in response, the latino task force on covid-19 which has just formed a few weeks earlier partnered with the university of california san francisco to join form this to figure out why the latinx community was so hard hit. owe. from this one study we learned so much about who was getting covid, why, where they were exposed, and what to do to intervene. we began focusing attention on the needs of those who test positive. the mission testing site was launched. the vaccination site is getting more than 500,000 shots in arms per day. one year later our numbers are down and every day we get closer to full recovery. in the recognition of the one year of life and service to the people of san francisco, the city is grateful to the founders of this center. thank you from the bottom of my heart. your work has been heroic throughout this pandemic. the rest, colleagues, i submit. >> clerk: thank you, supervisor ronen. su

further, the fresco's also significant in association with the latinx arts communities for its direct proposed period of significance is 1931 to 1974.one thousand nine hundred seventy-four. diego rivera is one of the most important and famous mexican artists. one of los tres grandes. the mexican mural movement which has been called by some art historians, the only completely original contribution by american artists to the development of modern art. after emerging himself in middle european art during the 15 years he spent studying and living in europe. rivera returned to mexico and began his prolific career painting his monumental paintings on public buildings. his growing fame brought him to the attention of artists museums and art patrons in the united states in the mid 1920s. between 1930 and 1934, rivera painted artworks in san francisco, detroit and new york. his first and last artwork in the united states was in san francisco. first at the former stock exchange in 1931 and his last at the golden gate international exposition on treasure island in 1940. painted in 1941, i'm sorr

. >> the whole point of being the cia is not being true to our identity, whether you're latinx or scottish especially if you're scottish. the bagpipes are a dead giveaway. i say get over yourself or yourselves. sadly, wokeness is now how we do business and even the cia is in on it. man, was i dumb. i thought that had an expiration date once you graduated, like listening to kat stevens. the understanding was that this stuff was worthless once you left college but i was wrong. they are drowning us with their box checking vernacular. could you imagine being interrogated by a new age agent. talk about torture. we saw you purchase the ingredients for the pipe bombs. you were obviously asking out against the colonizing trying to keep from you being your best as a result of your unique experiences as a survivor of your chronic bed wedding. you will confess to anything to stop them from droning on about themselves. yes, i had a bomb in my shoe. please stop forcing me to list my favorite role models of color. it's like shooting down a barrel. this video is not exactly top secret and this woman is s

the hispanic democrat from arizona has said this that he hates that phrase latinx. i think we ought to be listening more to the base. our working class base and maybe a little less to professors. i say this as a professor. whatever it is at georgetown. i'm part of the problem. carville is a professor at lsu. not university of texas or james madison. pretty good school. >> i never got back in the teacher's lounge. amanda, former new jersey governor chris christie surprised some folks saying this about donald trump. let's play this. >> overall how do you grade trump as president? >> oh, listen. overall i give the president a "a." you know? but the fact of the matter is that there were some things that happened specifically at the end of the presidency that i think had some things that clouded the accomplishments. >> amanda, a "a." >> i would have a hard time giving someone a "a" that gave me covid and putt me in the hospital for seven days. that isn't unlike what other republican leaders are saying. mike pence gave a speech in south carolina looking past the bad parts

a december study showed black and latinx students falling further behind in the shift to remote schoolingf george floyd and the racial reckoning that followed put in focus the toll that racism and police brutality take on the emotional and mental health of black students. in response to a united negro college fund survey at historically black colleges and universities last summer, one student said, covid-19 is out here killing us, and so are the police, and i'm tired. i never felt like i needed more therapy in my life. now taraji p. henson is again using her celebrity to help. this week her foundation, the boris lawrence henson foundation, launched the unspoken curriculum, a new six-week campaign centered on black students' mental health and bias in our education system. the foundation created in 2018 is named after henson's father, who also struggled with mental health issues. taraji p. henson, academy award nominated and golden globe winning actress and founder of the boris lawrence henson foundation. i'm excited for you to be here. i'm going to try to hold myself together and talk to y

the military is made up of black, white, asian, latinx, people of all genders from all walks of lifehat don't share the same rights as the rest of us. the only recourse our troops have to fight discrimination, no matter what military leadership says, is us. voting and demanding justice and equality. that's supporting our troops. i don't know if you can tell me how i got this message, that the military is none of my business. >> it's bizarre because that's what we're supposed to be about is civilian control of the military. we have a civilian commander in chief, civilian secretary of defense. >> patriotism is not blind faith. true patriotism is demanding this country live up to the myths it taught us. mary and dana are patriots. they want us to know that the military, like the country, has problems, and they won't stop pointing that out. >> it's a part of my loyalty and love that i challenge us to be better. like, no, i'm not going to let my military, my army that i proudly serve be racist or sexist or homophobic because that's not the best of us. >> america, i still believe, is the g

. >> i'd point out that the latinx population trails again in this early population group. again, that's been a focus of a lot of our outreach and popup tests, popup vaccinations. >> reporter: the county can give up to 20,000 vaccinations per day, but because of the steep drop in demand, it's only doing 10,000 right now. after the state saw this vaccination psa put out by our sister station telemundo with grammy award winners, they asked us for help in recruiting the band for a statewide campaign. >> this is a group that people are listening to, are following the group's name, the guys are very authentic and careful and deliberate in what they portray. >> reporter: the band, the state, and the county all vow to boost the outreach in the community hit the hardest by the pandemic. damian trujillo, nbc bay area news. >> if you're looking for a place to get your vaccine, we've made it easy, go to nbcbayarea.com. click on "race for a vaccine" at the top of the page in the trending bar. >>> up next, a new way to get out his message. president trump gets around twitter to send out

. >> it is also the asian community and the latinx community.ondent: armed with a masters degree she started a group creating an awareness campaign with the minnesota department of health that warned about ghtning creams tested and found to contain mercury and a petition drive with the sierra club that got 20,000 signatures demanding amazon stop selling lotions with the tocsin. >> i was able to deliver these positions to amazon, and the following day we learned they have removed the products. correspondent: amazon removed just 15 or to replace products. there remain dozens of brands with little if any ingredient information sold online and in stores frequented by immigrants. we asked a journalism student who is somali-american to browse the shelves for us. >> they told me of this product would make me look lighter and makes you look beautiful. correspondent: a minneapolis dermatologist said some creams do not work as advertised. others had varying degrees of toxicity in the most dangerous and popular are steroid based creams. >> they add permane

it doesn't care if it you're young, opened, gay, straight, latinx, trans. it's a virus.ublic health issue, not a personal lifestyle issue. >> another connection, extra fabric from recent panels made from the quilt was used to make masks for front line workers. the aids memorial quilt will be on display again may 16th at the aids walk in golden gate park. >>> still ahead on abc7 news at 11:00 a birth this weekend is inspiring hope among animal lovers. it is a chick and it is feeding time for the bay area's newest osprey, a sign we made usaa insurance for members like martin. an air force veteran made of doing what's right, not what's easy. so when a hailstorm hit, usaa reached out before he could even inspect the damage. that's how you do it right. usaa insurance is made just the way martin's family needs it with hassle-free claims, he got paid before his neighbor even got started. because doing right by our members, that's what's right. usaa. what you're made of, we're made for. ♪ usaa ♪ >>> this is what a baby osprey looks like with mom hovering nearby. this chick hatch

and officials at all levels of government and for the war on crime really targeted use of color in latinxack communities. black community. as part of the targeting and the strategies, people in these communities were subjected to not only increased control and surveillance, but increased for police violence that accompanied that. in the context of other shared social not -- socioeconomic, jobs, failing public schools, bstandard housing run by either absent public housing authorities or exploitative slum landlords, many of these communities that were over policed and under protected became potter cakes. with a shared set of grievances related to the overall racial inequality in the country at the time. amy: i want to go to attorney general william barr, not under a 1992 appearance on "face the nation" when he was attorney general in the administration of george h.w. bush barr blamed gangs for the uprising in los angeles after a jury acquitted four white police officers in the brutal beating of rodney king. >> we are investigating all of the violence, the arson that was involved in the riot

states with the stingiest benefits are obvious the states with the largest concentration of black and latinx. >> reporter: it's a tall task, but the group says they are making progress, and they're not going anywhere. >> hey, good afternoon, my name is earl. is this alyssa >> reporter: even as members find themselves re-employed. >> i still phone bank on the weekend and try to reach out to have them share their stories. there's power in numbers. >> reporter: earl initially got involved with the group by showing up at protests as we saw there, he's become quite active this made him realize how fragile, according to him, the system is. while he has a job that pays him to close, but he's also started a new business, a t-shirt business. >> rahel solomon, thank you. >>> researchers getting a better understanding on how immunity from covid affects different people two independent studies found that immunity could last a year or possibly a lifetime the reports also suggest that a part of the population will not need a booster shot. with those details, here is meg tirrell. >> 30 year old a.j. got a

. >> latinx black african american communities, people who have families who have been traditionally if either shut out of the system board. they believe, you know, they have being shut out some new incentives follow a trend we're seeing across the country. >> for example, west virginia is offering $100 savings bonds to 16 to 35 year-old to get vaccinated in maryland will pay fully vaccinated. state employees. $100. some breweries in new jersey are also giving out free drinks while connecticut and washington, dc are doing something similar. ohio takes the cake, though the state set up a 1 million dollars vaccination lottery that will give away the lump sum to 5 lucky residents. >> again, these events are on fridays and saturdays and will run through june 5th. the next event. is this friday in the bayview. we've included a link on our website where you can get more information and the schedule information as well. for now, live in san francisco. taylor the psac ii kron 4 news. alright taylor. coming up, a growing memorial for a young boy. >> who was killed in a senseless act of violen

renters are behind on their rent, with black and latinx households disproportionately affected. a new study finds the world faces faces rapid and unstoppable sea level rise in the coming decades unless nations meet their pledges to cut emissis under the paris climate agreemen the study in the journal "nature" warns that failure to meet the paris goals could mean a global temperature rise of 3 degrees celsius by the end of the century,nough to css a tiing point at wouldead to e irreveible melng of antatica's vast ice sets. the relting selevel ri wod flood astal counities arnd the gbe, with a catastphic 33 et of se leverise by 00. the ited natns warne wednesdaof soaring rates of nger, chd mortaly, and mateal deathduring the vid-19 pdemic. the world food program reported at least 155 million people required urgent food aid in 2020 -- a five-year high with at least 28 million people one step away from famine. meanwhile, the united nations population fund said a global shortage of midwives is leading to as many as 4.3 million preventable deaths of mothers and babies each year. former

that is centering white people but talking about black, asian, pacific islander, last continue x, -- latinx, a whole host of people of different cultural backgrounds and skin colors. but there should really -- we know through history, especially if we look specifically at the history of the civil rights and how civil rights leaders were monitored and surveilled by law enforcement agencies in the united states and we know that any type of the security paradigm in the united states is essentially founded in order to suppress political opposition to the current status quo, as well as suppress any type of political dissent and that was very early on, for example, in the hoover administration who has had a long reign as well as during the civil rights era, and more recently specifically not only against "black lives matter" advocates and also indigenous people and other people who are protesting standing rock or who protest certain immigration practices. very often these criminal statutes are weaponnized against historically marginalized people rather than used to prosecute and seek justice for