There’s a growing interest in community control of housing. How is it realized? We explore different community ownership structures, how tenants form a cooperative, and how larger housing nonprofits can incorporate residents into decision-making. By Miriam Axel-Lute There’s a growing interest in community control of housing. This webinar was organized and hosted by the Robert Wood…

This month, in a historic step to redress racism, the United States Department of Agriculture planned to begin issuing $4 billion in debt relief to minority farmers around the country. The move follows a long and ugly record of discrimination, including by the USDA itself, writes Cornelius Blanding in an opinion column. Depressingly but not surprisingly, a group…

Keziah Ridgeway says she’s the only teacher she knows in Philadelphia who teaches critical race theory in public high school — and she teaches it in her anthropology class, as one framework among many to understand human cultures. But she also teaches African American history, and that’s what she thinks the frenzy over critical race…

Unvaccinated people do more than merely risk their own health. They’re also a risk to everyone if they become infected with coronavirus, infectious disease specialists say. That’s because the only source of new coronavirus variants is the body of an infected person. “Unvaccinated people are potential variant factories,” Dr. William Schaffner, a professor in the…

Do we operate from a deficit perspective or a profit perspective? A Black high school student, Derrick, is involved in a fistfight. A journal falls out of his pocket during the altercation. Two days later, the teacher approaches him after class, asking for a moment of his time. She returns his book and admits to…

Seemingly overnight, my obscure legal specialty became a national lightning rod. What would CRT say about that? writes Gary Peller “It is a good thing that teachers and other school officials are trying to change that by taking a more thoughtful and accurate approach to our history, and being more honest about what needs fixing….

The University of North Carolina may have quelled one controversy when its trustees finally granted tenure to journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones on Wednesday, but across the country — and in Massachusetts — the number of Black women who are tenured faculty remains rare, the Boston Globe reports. At public and private nonprofit four-year colleges, slightly more than 2…

The case inspired a bruising debate over race, journalism and academic freedom. It led both to national headlines and anger and distress among many Black faculty members and students at UNC, NPR Reports. Some professors there have publicly said they were reconsidering their willingness to remain at the university over the journalist’s treatment. “We welcome…

We’ve worked to surround Naima with imagery and information that emphasize the beauty of her sense of self, history, and potential as a Black girl-child, which was the standard set by my own upbringing, writes Jamilah Lemieux. There is certainly a lot more to discuss today, in the form of media and public events, that…