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'The ground has shifted': Biden issues executive orders designed to tackle racial inequities
Activists and organizers see the order on housing, criminal justice, relations with Native Americans and xenophobia toward Asian Americans as a key first step.
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‘If the system is still the same, do we really have justice?’: Bernice King on poverty, race and accountability
The CEO of the King Center speaks to The 19th before launching a new initiative aimed at addressing hate and inequality.
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Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill: Biden administration says it’s resuming the effort
The Obama-era redesign of the currency was delayed during the Trump administration.
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Women are at the table: Biden nominates a record number of women for his Cabinet
Biden has nominated 12 women to his Cabinet — eight of them women of color. There is still a push for diversity across all levels of government.
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LGBTQ+ Americans greet the Biden-Harris era with hope, hesitancy
To many, the moment marks a new dawn, the end of deeply distressing four years. Others are simply exhausted.
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How Biden’s women-led communications team plans to rebuild trust with the American people
In a conversation with The 19th, members of the presidential press office spoke about uniting a country faced with a pandemic, a crippled economy, climate change and racial inequality.
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In the ‘battle for the soul of America,’ women are on the front lines
President Joe Biden’s inauguration, urging unity, doesn’t end the fight. How will women join it?
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Biden administration could have record number of Indian Americans — more than half women
The Biden-Harris administration has named or nominated the most Indian Americans for positions in the administration in American history.
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Inauguration Day is here. So are mixed emotions for 19th readers.
We asked our readers how they feel about the Biden-Harris inauguration — if you’re feeling anything from worried to hopeful, you’re not alone.
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Trump wielded toxic masculinity as a weapon. It hurt America.
His gendered attacks unleashed a poison in U.S. politics that culminated in the violent insurrection that will define his presidency.