This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. According to a report released in June 2017, many nonprofit and foundation leaders assume that people of color either do not aspire to be leaders, lack the proper education credentials,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When an NAACP task force released a report Wednesday calling for new restrictions on charter schools, one of the panel’s members took up the mic to refute accusations that the process…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The tragic events in Charlottesville, VA, and President Trump’s failure to unequivocally repudiate the ideology of neo Nazis/white supremacists/alt right groups and their violence presents American philanthropy with a unique…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For 10 years — the first decade I was in school — all my teachers were white women. As a Mexican-American kid, I didn’t get the chance to have a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Under the current U.S. Administration, philanthropic organizations and the nonprofit sector are now, more than ever, carrying the mantle for social change—be it for LGBTQ rights specifically or the struggles…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Over one hundred years ago, on April 6, 1917, the U.S. Congress voted to declare war on Germany and the nations allied with it. The scope of women’s service to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. One thing you hear often in education is that your ZIP code shouldn’t determine your educational destiny. This is something even folks who say they oppose “education reform” ostensibly believe.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The faculty of public schools are still primarily white and female. We know this intuitively but it is also the data from the National Center for Education Statistics. Our students are…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Last night, Tucker Carlson took on the subject of slavery on his Fox News show. Slavery is evil, he noted. However, slavery permeated the ancient world, he said, as reflected…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. once said, “There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation is a striking 3,469-square-mile expanse of sprawling grasslands and craggy badlands that sits in the southwest corner of South Dakota, touching Nebraska’s northern edge. Traversing…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When Pantsuit Nation became a viral phenomenon days before the election last November, the private Facebook group was focused on electing the first female president. Pantsuit Nation (which is technically a Facebook…