Our society still faces the effects of historical inequalities, where certain groups are disadvantaged. Institutions that make up our society have been designed to favor some people over others. These inequalities exploit our differences and make it much more challenging for people who don’t match the profile of the creators of these systems to succeed. This systemic favoritism exists in forms such as gender, socioeconomic and racial inequality. An example of this would be the gender wage gap. This exists in part, because the workforce was originally created by and for men.
Read MoreMay 25, 2020, one year later. Where are we now? It has been one year since the murder of George Floyd, an innocent Black man who’s life was taken from him because of a counterfeit $20 bill and racially biased cop. This was a death that reignited the fire of the Black Lives Matter movement, the 9 minute and 29 second recorded encounter shared by people across the world.
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