Equity

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has launched an investigation into Spirit Aerosystems, a large supplier to Boeing, after recurrent mishaps have occurred with airplane parts. Paxton’s investigation follows a series of costly and sometimes deadly accidents involving Boeing aircraft. In 2018 and 2019, 737s crashed in Indonesia and Ethiopia repeatedly, killing a total 346 people.

California's Sacramento City Council voted unanimously to pass a resolution making the city a “sanctuary city for transgender people.”

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will provide Emory University nearly $800,000 to mitigate the "effects of structural racism on chronic kidney disease."

A newsletter distributed to Intelligence Community (IC) officials discussed "language guidelines for how we talk about the People’s Republic of China."

A Tennessee Democratic state senator called for riots over the weekend after the Republican-controlled state Senate passed legislation preventing cities from restricting their police forces from making certain traffic stops.

Washington's Supreme Court ruled that an individual no longer needs to pass the bar exam for law licensure.

The Christian organization "Gideons International," known for distributing Bibles to hospitals and hotels across the country, has been banned from a large hospital system in Georgia due to "diversity, equity, and inclusion policies."

Advil, owned by Pfizer, launched the Pain Equity Project to end "systemic pain racism."

A United Airlines plane was forced to make an emergency landing in Los Angeles on Friday due to a “hydraulic failure.”

Activist group Californians for Justice (CFJ) paid students in the Long Beach Unified School District $1,400 to attend racial and social justice training, according to contracts obtained by The Free Press.