This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • In response to Starbucks employees calling the police on two of their customers without real cause, the company enforced a mandatory half day of racial bias training…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Originally coming from Lagos, Nigeria, Oluseyi Olaose writes about the discrimination she faced in school and how she overcame it by joining speech and debate. Her story…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · Former college admissions officer Will Geiger explains that although college admissions decisions are based on a “holistic admissions” process, the methods are archaic and should be reformed…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • At The 74, Derrell Bradford discusses the segregation in America’s schools and how reform opponents use it as an excuse for underperforming schools, even though the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Fortune magazine profiles Black Panther director Ryan Coogler (on its World’s 50 Greatest Leaders list this year), and asks him about his leadership style, along with…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Across Los Angeles, 52 barbershops are helping hypertensive individuals receive better health care by hosting patients inside their shops while trained pharmacists check their blood pressure and provide…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · Chalkbeat reports that New York City’s education department will discuss new proposals to integrate District 3 middle schools with Upper West Side middle schools within the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Mayor Bill de Blasio’s has a plan to integrate New York City’s elite specialized high schools, but his proposals are not universally possible and it remains to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The disparity between white and black adults has not gone away completely, there are still nuances in the data that illuminate the disparities but only when specifically…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass Take: · In an op-ed on Chalkbeat, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio addresses the lack of diversity in specialized schools and discusses ways to improve accessibility…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • District attorneys typically build their reputation by being tough on crime, but prosecutor elections in California are making headlines by promoting more nuanced reform in the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • On Americans for the Arts’ blog, the leader of the Palante Theater in Massachusetts discusses the importance of Latinx inclusion and how that informed his mission…