by SARAH BUTRYMOWICZ, JEFF AMY and LARRY FENN | Jun 27, 2021 | Articles
Alphina Kamara wonders what might have happened if she’d been introduced to science and engineering careers at her Wilmington, Delaware, high school. Kamara, who is Black, was enrolled in an “audio engineering” course that taught her how to make music tracks and...
by Associated Press | Jun 19, 2021 | Articles
The U.S. government is catching up with Black people who have been commemorating the end of slavery in the United States for generations with a day called “Juneteenth.” President Joe Biden signed a bill Thursday that was passed by Congress to set aside Juneteenth, or...
by Henry J. Gomez | May 6, 2021 | Articles
President Joe Biden says the guilty verdicts against Derek Chauvin are a “step forward.” Now he wants Congress to pass police reforms. As he welcomed the guilty verdicts Tuesday against former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin, President Joe Biden...
by Autumn Allen | May 6, 2021 | Articles
Why do you think so many Black boys are not doing well in schools today? What are the forces pushing them out? There are a lot of different factors. A lot of it stems from, if we think of race and its intersectional identities as social constructs, the way we’ve...
by Dana Goldstein, The New York Time | Aug 14, 2020 | Articles
A black teenager, 15, jailed for not doing her homework has been released from probation after an appeals court ordered a judge to let her go. Judge Mary Ellen Brennan adopted a caseworker’s recommendation that the case against the teen – referred to as ‘Grace’ to...
by BRINKWIRE | Aug 14, 2020 | Articles
A black teenager, 15, jailed for not doing her homework has been released from probation after an appeals court ordered a judge to let her go. Judge Mary Ellen Brennan adopted a caseworker’s recommendation that the case against the teen – referred to as ‘Grace’ to...