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Editor’s Note: This story was originally published June 29, 2020 in the wake of the protests following the death of George Floyd and has been republished for Black History Month. The history of African Americans begins on the African continent where diverse empires thrived for thousands of years and traded gold, ivory and salt with […]
Footnotes [1] “Introduction,” in Ruth Baston in The Black Educational Movement in Boston: A Sequence of Historical Events: A Chronology, (Northeastern University School of Education, 2001), 1. [2] Ruth Batson, The Black Educational Movement in Boston: A Sequence of Historical Events: A Chronology, (Northeastern University School of Education, 2001), 46. [3] Ruth Batson, “Thomas Atkins, […]
Los Angeles has joined a growing list of United States school districts, states and cities restricting the use of smartphones in public schools amid a debate over the effects of social media and technology on children and young people. Last month, the Los Angeles Unified School District Board, which is responsible for about 1,000 schools, […]
Fueled by the Supreme Court’s June 2023 ruling that bans affirmative action in higher education, conservative lawmakers across the country have advanced their own state bans on diversity initiatives, especially those that might make students feel shame or guilt for past harms against people of color. This effort encompasses medical schools. Despite
Hundreds of students from Nantucket crossed the stage Friday, wearing caps and gowns to celebrate their graduation. But, before Nantucket High School seniors received their diplomas, one student, who the town deprived of an education, finally got her own. Eunice Ross, an African American teenager who was integral in Massachusetts’ school integration movement in the […]
Fueled by the Supreme Court’s June 2023 ruling that bans affirmative action in higher education, conservative lawmakers across the country have advanced their own state bans on diversity initiatives, especially those that might make students feel shame or guilt for past harms against people of color. This effort encompasses medical schools. Despite
News Analysis Only 1.8% of US doctors were Black in 1906 – and the legacy of inequality in medical education has not yet been erased Fueled by the Supreme Court’s June 2023 ruling that bans affirmative action in higher education, conservative lawmakers across the country have
Fueled by the Supreme Court’s June 2023 ruling that bans affirmative action in higher education, conservative lawmakers across the country have advanced their own state bans on diversity initiatives, especially those that might make students feel shame or guilt for past harms against people of color. This effort encompasses medical schools. Despite
Randi Williams, a recognized advocate for women and minorities in tech, recently graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a PhD in Computer Science, specializing in AI, Education, and Robotics. In an email to her University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) family, she shared her excitement about career prospects at Georgia Tech and Carnegie Mellon. […]