Kahlil Greene was elected as Yale’s first Black student body president in 2019, when he was a sophomore majoring in history, writes Adenike Olanrewaju. Off-campus, he is known to his more than 447,000 TikTok followers as a self-described “Gen-Z historian” who expounds on lesser-known aspects of American history like the Tuskegee medical experiment, as well…

Each year, ADL releases a report on the state of online hate and harassment in America, according to Buzzfeed. We pulled some highlights from the report that show how big of a problem this is in our country. You can read the full report here. LGBTQ+ respondents reported higher rates of overall harassment than all other…

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was set to urge social media companies to take action to stamp out racial abuse on their platforms on Tuesday, after the profiles of Black England soccer players were bombarded with racist comments, according to Time. Johnson was set to reiterate “the urgent need for action” by social media companies…

More than a year after the pivotal moment where millions of Americans witnessed the murder of George Floyd at the hands of those charged with the responsibility to serve and protect — and about two weeks after the salutary news that his killer would pay with a 22.5 year prison sentence — it seems like…

Battles over diversity and equity initiatives in public schools have resulted in administrators and teachers being fired or resigning over discussions about race, according to NBC. Rydell Harrison is one of a small but growing number of educators who have left their jobs after school districts became inundated in recent months by furious parents who’ve accused…

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…