This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The conversation about reparations for slavery entered a new stage earlier in 2021, with the U.S. House Judiciary Committee voting for the creation of a commission to address the matter. The bill, H.R.…
Giving Compass’ Take: • This report outlines how and why AAPI groups need to harness strategic communication via storytelling to advance civic engagement and action for AAPI communities. • The…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It’s a few months before she’ll graduate from Newark Memorial High School and Allison Dinsmore doesn’t have a plan for what will happen after that. Unlike students in the far…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Trustees of the Zarrow Families Foundation have decided to commit the funds of the joint family foundation to positively impact Black Tulsans, Indigenous Persons, and People of Color. The Zarrow Families…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Despite tech and cybersecurity companies proclaiming to advance new initiatives to advance diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in recent years, not nearly enough progress has been made in the cybersecurity industry, which…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. We need more Black teachers. A lot more. While Black students account for 15 percent of all public schools students in the U.S., Black teachers make up just 7 percent of the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Amid a heated political feud over the way educators should teach students about the legacy of issues like white supremacy and slavery, a major new study points to a positive,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It’s common to feel a deep sense of injustice for what happened in history and to hunger to create a better future by doing good work today. But what does…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In 2012, Marissa Evans wanted to make history when she applied to be editor-in-chief at Marquette University’s student newspaper, the Marquette Tribune. If she got the job, she would become the second…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The restart of fully in-person public school classes in less than a month will bring the return of nearly a million students — along with more than 4,000 school safety…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Although navigating school during a global pandemic presented new challenges for almost all K-12 staff nationwide, some educators, like Jeffrey Wright of Woonsocket, Rhode Island, faced an additional difficulty that…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Since Asian Americans first began to immigrate to the United States almost two centuries ago, we have been framed as perpetual foreigners. Racist portrayals in film and television, references to…