Listen: Parents Are Education Advocates Too
March 22, 2018 by Ebony Daughtry As the mother of a Black 8-year-old boy, I know that the stats are already stacked against him: Black boys (and girls) are usually disciplined more harshly in school. And…
How Black Panther Has the Power to Ignite an Education Movement
February 26, 2018 by Samantha Kobbah This Black History Month, the world witnessed a revolutionary movement in film. Black Panther, the first Marvel movie directed by a Black filmmaker and the first to feature a predominantly…
Representation Matters: How the Movie Coco Celebrates Mexican Culture
December 04, 2017 by Mirel Herrera For the second week in a row, Coco, a Disney Pixar film that follows the journey of a young Mexican boy to a magical Land of the Dead, was number…
On Charlottesville: Race Matters, But Facts Do Too
August 15, 2017 by Wil Del Pilar, Ph.D. Deadly protests this weekend by torch-carrying White nationalists at the University of Virginia and in the city of Charlottesville, Va., serve as a terrible reminder to us all just how…