“The guy went on this rant about how he can’t find help and he can’t keep anybody in his medical facility because they all quit over the stimulus checks,” according to a story on Insider. “And I’m like, ‘Your medical professionals quit over $1,200 checks? That’s weird.’” He said he found it hard to believe…

White parents often avoid talking openly about race with white children because of the unfounded fear that it will call attention to differences that kids wouldn’t otherwise notice. Some insist their kids are just too young for such conversations, writes Kelsey Borresen in Huffington Post. Yet research indicates that even infants can recognize differences in skin color. By preschool…

White students were captured on video waving a Confederate flag at a Georgia school and did not face disciplinary action from administrators, WGCL-TV reported. In response, students at Coosa High School planned a protest against racism. A group of Black students was suspended for organizing the demonstration, while the non-Black organizers weren’t, students told the outlet. Students…

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More children with COVID-19 are being hospitalized in Idaho. Idaho hospitals are seeing the most cases of COVID-19 in children since the start of the pandemic. BY SARAH A. MILLER When Javier Castaneda, the principal of Heritage Community Charter School in Caldwell, died of COVID-19 last month at the age of 48, he left behind…

Inhabitants of the islands once called Quisqueya / Kiskeya (Dominican Republic) and Borinquen / Borikén (Puerto Rico) are the people Columbus encountered in the Caribbean. Some scholars contend these indigenous populations — often referred to under the umbrella term “Taíno”— ceased to exist just decades after Europeans arrived. Others have chronicled Taíno legacies in contemporary Latino Caribbean culture asserting…

Research has shown that many schools do not accurately represent Indigenous peoples when they teach history. I think this is true not only on Indigenous Peoples Day, but throughout the school year. Researchers have found that K-12 schools tend to teach about Native Americans as if they existed only in the past. By revising the…

In July, Knox News exclusively reported the department began looking into Holt’s conduct after he was accused of making racist comments in a parking lot after a wedding. Holt is white. A police report says he repeatedly made racist remarks to a Black man who also attended same wedding. After warning Holt to quit making…

Jannique Martinez’s home sits in a tidy cul-de-sac in Virginia Beach, Va., where she lives with her husband and kids and hosts the occasional bake sale. There’s just one problem, and it’s a loud one: a man who lives next door blares monkey sounds, banjo music and racist slurs at Martinez and her family —…

The use of data is more effective than personal stories in helping people understand the magnitude and structural causes of the Black-white wealth gap in the United States, according to a new study by Yale researchers. The study, published on Sept. 13 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is based on…