This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. October was the month we started to better understand how the 2020 pivot to remote instruction, and the subsequent fight to keep classrooms open amid COVID and the Delta variant,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Yes, startups led by Black, Indigenous and people of color-owned need growth capital. But meeting the growth and operating capital needs of established BIPOC businesses is also key to closing…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. All of us have watched the bouncy-castle known as Ozy deflate and then collapse. But there’s one lesson I hope we don’t take away from this: that Black- and POC-led…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Income share agreements (ISAs) are designed to help students pay for and attend postsecondary education and career training programs. With an ISA, students receive financial support to help cover the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In February 2017, when Keia Blount was preparing to be released after serving a five-year prison term at the North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women, she had no idea where…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Last fall we asked our clients to share the work they’re doing in the areas of justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion and, no surprise, they went above and beyond. We are…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A look at 48,000 conventional monuments in the United States reveals trends in who or what gets memorialized with a statue and who or what does not. In October 2021,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Close to a hundred Afghan Shiite Muslims were killed in attacks on mosques in October 2021. One such attack took place on Oct. 15, when a group of suicide bombers…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Black youth in the U.S. experience more illness, poverty, and discrimination than their white counterparts. These issues put them at higher risk for depression and other mental health problems. Yet…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. More than 60 years ago, the EU introduced the principle of equal pay for equal work for men and women. Yet, a gender pay gap—the difference between the average gross…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. “The Covid-19 pandemic was expected to drive many families into hunger as jobs were lost and supply chains were interrupted. The prediction held true, but mostly for minorities,” reports The…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When the ACLU was established in 1920, the freedoms enumerated in the Constitution had never been fully tested in the courts, and only through persistent and broad public activism have…