A long history of discriminatory practices and a University of Nevada, Las Vegas study that shows how those impact both workers and businesses, points to a need for industry-wide change.

This powerful program began with the premiere of Las Vegas resident Jennifer Bellor’s 898 Hildegard, a piece for orchestra and chorus that intertwines excerpts from the medieval composer Hildegard von Bingen’s chants “O Vis Eternitatis” and “O Gloriosissimi Lux Vivens Angeli.” Next, the orchestra performed Schumann’s profound and touching Overture, Scherzo and Finale followed by Brahms’ immensely popular German Requiem featuring the Las Vegas Master Singers, UNLV Concert Singers & Chamber Chorale, and soloists Alisa Jordheim and Will Liverman.

By now, we all know that face masks are a crucial part of preventing the spread of coronavirus to others—but are all masks created equal? Antimicrobial face masks are the latest trend in COVID-19 prevention, but doctors and infectious disease experts are divided on their benefits.

Racial tensions have been simmering since the beginning of the United States.

Las Vegas casinos are modifying their smoking policies amid the pandemic.

Summer was cut short last week for 82 children and staff members who tested positive for the coronavirus at one of Kanakuk Kamps' overnight camps, in Lampe, Mo. The network of Christian camps is just the latest to contend with outbreaks amid a record-breaking crisis in America.

The politics don’t swarm out at you from Nanda Sharifpour’s installation One, on view in a large corner window of Soho Lofts, Las Vegas Boulevard and Hoover Avenue. A six-line poem, rendered in English and Farsi and backlit by bright, changing colors, One offers its commentary quietly, by induction; if you prefer political art delivered like a sack of doorknobs, walk nine minutes to Main Street for Izaac Zevalking’s mural Chain Migration (Lady Liberty bent over the hood of an ICE vehicle).

Between July 8th and July 13th, I had been following the updates because so many of my queer fandom friends were posting hopes, wishes and fears regarding the disappearance of Naya Rivera. Amid the brutal deaths of Vanessa Guillen, Breonna Taylor, and the continued persecution of undocumented immigrant children and adults, I’ve grown weary of grieving the loss of young women of color. A celebrity death, in context, serves as a reminder of the numbing reality that the world expects much of women of color in their life and death, their celebrity and the context of their death giving weight to the energy a greater public exercises in wanting more for them/us.

The University of Nevada, Las Vegas, system Chancellor Thom Reilly and the presidents of the eight institutions in the Nevada System of Higher Education are among 180 universities to sign onto an amicus brief Friday supporting a lawsuit seeking to stop the Trump Administration from forcing foreign students to leave the country should their classes move online-only amid the pandemic.