Tag: African Americans
Harriet Tubman: Biden revives plan to put a Black woman of...
Robert Gudmestad, Colorado State University
The Biden administration has revived a plan to put Harriet Tubman on the US$20 bill after Donald Trump’s Treasury secretary...
What’s not being said about why African Americans need to take...
Debra Furr-Holden, Michigan State University
Dr. Anthony Fauci and other national health leaders have said that African Americans need to take the COVID-19 vaccine to...
Once a symbol of desegregation, Ruby Bridges’ school now reflects another...
Connie L. Schaffer, University of Nebraska Omaha; Martha Graham Viator, Rowan University, and Meg White, Stockton University
On Nov. 14, 1960, after a long summer...
Schools often fail to identify gifted and talented students – especially...
Marcia Gentry, Purdue University
About a decade ago, I was working with a large, urban school district on creating a gifted and talented program that...
How baseball’s first commissioner led a conspiracy of silence to preserve...
Chris Lamb, IUPUI
The Baseball Writers’ Association of America recently announced that it would remove former Major League Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis’ name from...
Kamala Harris represents an opportunity for coalition building between Blacks and...
Danielle Casarez Lemi, Southern Methodist University and Melina Juárez Pérez, Western Washington University
Kamala Harris is the daughter of a Jamaican father and Indian mother;...
African American teens face mental health crisis but are less likely...
Rebecca Klisz-Hulbert, Wayne State University
Black youth in the U.S. experience more illness, poverty, and discrimination than their white counterparts. These issues put them at...
New teachers mistakenly assume Black students are angry
Alison Cooke, North Carolina State University; Amy Halberstadt, North Carolina State University, and Pamela Watkins Garner, George Mason University
The Research Brief is a short...
EXPLORING NATURE
At Antarctica’s midwinter, a look back at the frozen continent’s long...
Daniella McCahey, Texas Tech University
As Midwinter Day approaches in Antarctica – the longest and darkest day of the...
