Navigating College and Beyond Without Affirmative Action
The need for diversity, equity and access in college admissions, across university campuses and in the workforce — couldn’t be more heightened. Today, America stands at a crossroads of fighting…
INFOGRAPHIC: 5 Facts About Affirmative Action
Like it or not, the hard truth is that America has a long history of discrimination against people of color and women, who have systemically been denied access to voting…
4 Ways Education Leaders Can Respond to Anti-Black Rhetoric
From about 1925-1961, Nannie Helen Burroughs, an educator and activist who started her own school in Washington, DC, required her students to take both an oral and written Black history…
Censorship is About Power, Not People
Amid the fierce debate surrounding what should and should not be taught in classrooms, some far-right-leaning lawmakers have introduced legislation and taken significant steps to limit educators’ ability to discuss…
A Transparent Attempt to Divide Parents from Their Children’s Schools
Pulitzer Prize winner and intellectual icon Toni Morrison has received national attention that has forced students to fight for the right to high-quality education. A rash of bills pushing against…
Student Voice: Students are the Collateral Damage in Adults’ Culture War
In another attempt to silence the history and experience of Black and Brown communities and coddle White guilt, certain factions are engaging in a political culture war — with the…
Learning Honest History Isn’t Criminal — It’s What Students Deserve to Know
Amid the debate surrounding so-called Critical Race Theory (CRT), Republican lawmakers in 37 states have introduced legislation or taken significant steps to limit an educator’s ability to discuss race and…