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Health

What’s not being said about why African Americans need to take...

Staff Writer - January 9, 2021

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...

Education

Once a symbol of desegregation, Ruby Bridges’ school now reflects another...

Staff Writer - November 16, 2020

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...

Education

Schools often fail to identify gifted and talented students – especially...

Staff Writer - October 29, 2020

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...

Art

How baseball’s first commissioner led a conspiracy of silence to preserve...

Staff Writer - October 19, 2020

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...

Politics

Kamala Harris represents an opportunity for coalition building between Blacks and...

Staff Writer - September 5, 2020

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;...

Entrepreneurship

African American teens face mental health crisis but are less likely...

Staff Writer - July 29, 2020

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...

Education

New teachers mistakenly assume Black students are angry

Staff Writer - July 22, 2020

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...