This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A survey of close to 700 articles from different disciplines and regions of the world highlights key factors that contribute to this situation. These include Indigenous peoples’ reliance on traditional…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Because of the compounding effects of discrimination in our medical, legal, and social services infrastructures, Black mothers and infants in the United States face worse health outcomes than other groups.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. One day not long after the 2016 US presidential election, a white senior colleague asked me—the only Black tenure-line faculty in my college at that time—how Black people felt realizing…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A long history of violence against Native people has led to the disproportionate disappearance and murder of Indigenous women, girls, and two-spirit people. Families and communities are left devastated, often…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and, most recently, Daunte Wright and Adam Toledo, are a reminder of how far America has to go to remediate systemic harms…
In 2013, the One Nation Bay Area Project—a collaborative funded by Silicon Valley Community Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation, Marin Community Foundation and Asian American/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy—released a benchmark…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Gifted programs in elementary schools aren’t adequately serving Black and low-income students, research finds. “The potential benefits aren’t equally distributed,” says lead author and University of Florida College of Education…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Women journalists and journalists of color aren’t paid as well as their white male counterparts in 14 Gannett newsrooms, and journalists in unionized newsrooms are paid better than those in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For queer-BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) identifying individuals, the endless and unique intersections of one’s identities can make it difficult to find yourself authentically represented in the arts. Working…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The diversity of students in this country is increasing, but the diversity of our teaching force is not. Just seven percent of our country’s teachers are Black. Yet research tells us that…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When Philadelphia’s offices, museums, and shops all shuttered in March 2020, at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the city’s Indego bike-share service saw its total ridership plummet. Downtown commuters began working…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Navajo Nation — a Native American territory that spans Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah in the United States — recently had a 10-day streak of zero COVID-19 related deaths. The population of…