This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. We now know that coronavirus — much like police brutality, mass incarceration, and climate change — is not colorblind. It’s not that the virus itself differentiates by race, but, as with other…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In November, Aspen Words announced the longlist for the fifth annual Aspen Words Literary Prize, a $35,000 award recognizing a work of fiction that addresses a vital social issue. The selected books explore questions…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. At the end of 2021, NPQ convened an advisory committee on racial justice and asked the question: What is the edge of current racial justice work? The group converged around “building pro-Black…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Angela Phillips had been in labor for almost three days when her doctors began to pressure her to have a cesarean section. There wasn’t a medical reason other than the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The COVID-19 pandemic hit communities of color in the United States with a disproportionate ferocity that exposed and exploited generations of inequity. For vulnerable youth and young adults residing in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For homicide detectives, 2020 brought good news and bad news. On the one hand, police across the nation solved more murders — in absolute numbers — than in any year…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The American Rescue Plan Act could do more to tackle racial wealth inequality, argues professor Goldburn P. Maynard Jr. While the American Rescue Plan Act provided a major infusion of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The 2017-18 school year was difficult at Lakeland Union High School. Disciplinary problems came in waves for the Oneida County school — in February 2018, two students were arrested for making…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Before the 2020-21 school year, Christa Talbott, a 20-year veteran of New Orleans schools, had never considered leaving the profession she loved this early. But then came a dispiriting spring…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It should be obvious that “who” is doing a job or playing a leadership role informs how the job is done. Who we are as people — the experiences that…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. About 87% of nonprofit CEOs in the U.S. were white in 2019, down from 90% in 2016. Similarly, roughly 78% of nonprofit board members were white in 2019, down from…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. From reimagining the classroom to tearing down imposter syndrome, author, critic and fierce public intellectual bell hooks inspired women of color across generations to create a world in which all…