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…

A Black Google product manager said he was stopped by security and his job in a viral tweet last week, writes Taylor Ardrey for Insider. The employee said, “somebody called security on me because they didn’t believe I was an employee.” A Google spokesperson told Forbes that they take the worker’s “concerns very seriously.” A…

The vast majority of academic research on labor markets is from the supply side, says in Harvard Gazette. It doesn’t look at the employer as an animated object that makes decisions based on a rationale that may or may not be sound. Joseph B. Fuller said: Before I was a professor at HBS, I was…

“When my husband and I were offered jobs at the University of Idaho, when we got to Moscow,” Stevens said, “one of the things that we were told by many white professors really quickly was, ‘This is such a nice town. It’s such a beautiful place to raise a family. It’s so safe here. Everybody’s…

Western Washington Fred Meyer and QFC stores violated federal labor law last fall when they barred employees from wearing Black Lives Matter buttons at work, according to the National Labor Relations Board, according to the Seattle Times. Last week’s finding by the NLRB comes just over a year after Kroger, parent company of Fred Meyer…

The singer explores his search for self on tracks like “Sun Goes Down” — with its emotional lyrics that detail his own experience battling depression, according to NBC News. But true to fashion, he still finds space for fun among his self-discovery, with thumping tracks like “Industry Baby” and “Montero (Call Me by Your Name).”…

As the world struggles with a virus that continues to adapt, business leaders are navigating an equally complicated and evolving workplace. The conversation has shifted from remote work to hybrid work. Health isn’t just about physical ailments but also emotional and psychological ones. Perhaps more than anything, people want stability–and, increasingly, they’re leaving their jobs behind to find it….