This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. De’Janae Simpson flits around the hundreds of folks gathered at Eagle Church in Whitestown with nervous energy. It’s not the first time this 17-year-old has addressed so many people, but she…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Four years ago, the UCLA Civil Rights Project issued a chilling report, showing that New York had the most segregated schools in the country. Anyone willing to look already knew our schools were…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. One in three black men can expect to spend time in prison in their lifetime and Hispanic men are almost four times as likely to go to prison at some…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. You know the way corals are formed? Like microorganisms piling up on each other—it’s kind of like a pileup of many conversations and experiences.” This is how Tim Rios describes…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It’s not every day you meet someone like Aida Rodriguez. She’s not your typical professor, your typical philanthropoid, your typical mentor, nor is she typical in any other way you…
The Rohingya face the final stages of genocide. Decades of persecution have taken on a new and intensified form since mass killings in 2012. The marked escalation in State-sponsored stigmatisation,…
Latinos today constitute 18 percent of the United States population – up from roughly one percent in the 1960s. Over the next 40 years, this demographic group will continue to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Blacks give back every day in ways that are considered traditional and very public and in ways that are not so traditional and not always so public. Black people give back…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The disparate numbers of Native Americans incarcerated is at an all-time high. In Oregon, Native women are 7 to 8% of the state prison population and men are 4 to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Students who are black or poor are suspended at much higher rates than those who are white or affluent, according to a new study of school discipline trends in Louisiana.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The San Francisco NAACP is urging the city school board to declare a state of emergency to spotlight the city’s stark racial gap in student achievement. We are failing. This…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A new partnership between Indigenous artist Jimmy “Taboo” Gomez (Shoshone) of the Black Eyed Peas with Native Americans in Philanthropy has resulted in a generous gift of $50,000 to support the organizations’…