International
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Maude Callen, a Black nurse-midwife, delivered more than 800 infants across the South Carolina Lowcountry starting in the 1920s, when segregation made it difficult for Black people to get medical care. Although Callen isn’t commonly considered a household name, visitors passing through the new $120 million International African American Museum will learn about her […]
NEW YORK, NY – 08 May 2025 – Dr. Jeffrey Gardere, better known as “Dr. Jeff,” America’s psychologist,” has joined forces with Sheila Thorne, President & CEO, Multicultural Healthcare Marketing Group, LLC (MHMG) and Sabine Poisson, President, Sabine Poisson, Inc. to launch a national campaign to fight heart disease in Haiti. “When Sheila Thorne invited […]
For the 2022-2023 school year, Wood House will be home to the Gail Peek House, a TAPSI house exploring the experience of Black people at the College. (Samuel Riley/The Williams Record) The Office of Residential Life and Housing approved four Theme/Affinity/Program/Special Interest (TAPSI) houses for the 2022-2023 academic year. Gail Peek House — a house […]
GUILTY: International jurists release final, detailed verdict on U.S. and state governments’ pattern of genocide against Black, Brown and Indigenous peoples AFRO American Newspapers Source link
On summer break from a Ph.D. program, an international student at University of California, San Diego, was planning a trip with a few friends to Hawaii. But after seeing international students across the United States stripped of their legal status, the student decided against it. Any travel, even inside the U.S., just didn’t seem worth […]
The Wisconsin judge who was arrested on Friday morning on charges of obstructing immigration enforcement spent most of her legal career working on behalf of low-income people and marginalized groups. Federal authorities arrested the judge, Hannah C. Dugan of the Milwaukee County Circuit Court, on suspicion that she “intentionally misdirected federal agents away from” an […]
The Trump administration on Friday abruptly moved to restore thousands of international students’ ability to study in the United States legally, but immigration officials insisted they would still try to terminate that legal status despite a wave of legal challenges. The decision, which came during a court hearing in Washington, was a dramatic shift by […]
Watch: Moment Tufts University student is arrested by masked immigration agents The Trump administration has revoked visas of hundreds of international students and detained roughly a dozen others on college campuses across the US, often without any warning or recourse for appeals. Videos of some of the arrests, showing plain-clothes officers handcuff and arrest students […]
A few years ago, the global consulting firm McKinsey and Company began issuing a series of increasingly urgent reports concerning “automation” and the future of work. Defining automation broadly as artificial intelligence and “other digital technologies,” the company promised in its reports that it could advise companies how they might prepare.Footnote 2 Amidst this flurry […]
In 2016, British investigative journalist Simon Rogers created a map/timeline of Twitter hashtags associated with Black Lives Matter. The map (which as of July 2023 can no longer be found on the Internet) indirectly shows both the intensity of Black Lives Matter protests and their geographic scope. Within the United States, we see protest activity […]