When Samantha Maltais arrives at Harvard this autumn, she will be the first member of the Aquinnah Wampanoag tribe to attend its law school. In some ways, she will be joining an ancestor. More than 350 years ago, an Aquinnah Wampanoag man named Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck became the first Native American to graduate from Harvard University. He attended…

The wealth gap between Black and white Americans has been persistent and extreme, writes Liz Mineo. It represents, scholars say, the accumulated effects of four centuries of institutional and systemic racism and bears major responsibility for disparities in income, health, education, and opportunity that continue to this day, she said. Consider that right now the…

Last June, social media feeds became flooded with corporate statements about how companies would promote racial equity within and beyond their workforce writes Lauren Feiner. The commitments came after the police murder of George Floyd sparked protests around the country. One year after those initial statements, many tech companies seem to have met several of their…

What we don’t often consider is where the idea of different races came from. God? Nature? Or was it man-made? — and if so, why? the story says. “The Invention of Race,” a documentary produced and hosted by John Biewen, explores how these concepts developed from the ancient world to today. According to MPR, in…

Fewer than half of Americans belong to a house of worship, a new study shows, but religion – and Christianity in particular – continues to have an outsize influence in US politics, especially because it is declining faster among Democrats than Republicans, according to an article by Adam Gabutt. Just 47% of the US population…

More than three dozen members and associates across both the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers have been charged with crimes, KTVB reports. Some local chapters cut ties with national leadership in the weeks after the deadly siege, the story says. The Proud Boys’ chairman called for a pause in the rallies that often have led to clashes with…

Empowering the Latinx community with financial knowledge is the key to reducing the wealth gap.  Hispanics’ personal finance knowledge is generally lower than that of the overall U.S. adult population, according to TIAA Institute. The difference is prevalent across all demographic groups, except for young (ages 18-34) U.S.-born Hispanics, whose financial literacy is close to…

After five years, it comes to an end: the acclaimed run of one of the most important Black minds of a generation scripting the most important Black superhero of all time, the Washington Post Reports. Ta-NehisiCoates’s last issue of Black Panther was published by Marvel Comics on Wednesday, wrapping up a job that he debuted…

White fans at NBA games know that they can berate and demean Black players with little to no consequence – and they love doing it, writes Shaun King. “I’ve had NBA players tell me this for a decade. The first time I ever heard someone unpack how strange it is for white people to somehow…

From the 19th century until the 1970s, more than 150,000 First Nations children were required to attend state-funded Christian schools as part of a program to assimilate them into Canadian society, according KTVB. They were forced to convert to Christianity and not allowed to speak their native languages. Many were beaten and verbally abused, and…