Underrepresented
Norma Upshaw, 82, was living alone south of Nashville, when her doctor said she needed to start in-home dialysis. Her closest family lived 40 miles away, and they’d already scrambled once when the independent senior living facility she had called home — a community of largely Black residents — had closed with 30 days’ notice. […]
Sign up for our Metro US email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox! Norma Upshaw, 82, was living alone south of Nashville, when her doctor said she needed to start in-home dialysis. Her closest family lived 40 miles away, and they’d already scrambled once when the independent senior […]
WASHINGTON, DC – Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Representative Joaquin Castro (D-TX-20) introduced the Advanced Coursework Equity Act, bicameral legislation that would create a federal grant program to help states and school districts increase the enrollment of underrepresented students in advanced coursework and academic programs. The Advanced Coursework Equity Act would allow eligible schools and school […]
Weekend Reading on Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation in politics, on boards, in sports and entertainment, in judicial offices and in the private sector in the U.S. and around the world—with a little gardening and goodwill mixed in for refreshment! Recently, Frontline featured the World Economic Forum’s 17th annual
Remember when media outlets and academia used to refer to socially marginalized groups as “nonwhites”? It doesn’t take a lot of social awareness to cringe at that term today. Now, folks use the term “underrepresented” instead. It may feel like the safest option among the minefield of language
The Now Evening Auction at Sotheby’s in May 2022. Courtesy of Sotheby’s. If you are looking for information on how representation in museums and the art market has evolved over time, here is a broad selection of takeaways from the Burns Halperin Report 2022. Female Artists In Museums Mary Beth Edelson, Some Living American […]
First-generation alumna Natalia Sanchez ’22 entered FIU four years ago with a dream to study criminal justice. But in her first semester, she found she was struggling in math and turned to Student Support Services (SSS) for assistance. At SSS, Sanchez found a community so close-knit and determined to help her succeed that she participated […]
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in an effort to provide assistance to under-resourced inventors and small businesses will kick off its national tour by hosting a two-day event in Minneapolis through its Patent Pro Bono Program. The free event, co-presented by the USPTO . . .
Policy Watch’s tagline is “Stories and Voices that Matter,” emphasizing our mission to bring you stories you don’t see elsewhere and to amplify the voices of those who might otherwise go unheard. This year, we pursued that mission with a series of stories highlighting some of those voices, including: The work of the state’s historically […]