The Georgetown Prisons and Justice Initiative (PJI) will lead the five-year program. It will choose its first 25 students in the fall 2021 semester. By the program’s end, at least 125 inmates within the Maryland prison system will have earned bachelor’s degrees from the private university in Washington, according to CNN. “There is a great deal…
Virginia Cops Pepper-Sprayed Black and Latino Army Officer who had Hands Raised During Traffic Stop
“What’s going on?” Nazario asked the officers, who shouted at him to get out of the SUV as they approached, guns drawn. “What’s going on?” Nazario asked the officers, who shouted at him to get out of the SUV as they approached, guns drawn. “I’m honestly afraid to get out,” Nazario told the officers. “Yeah, you should…
States Step In To Stop Colleges Holding Transcripts Ransom For Unpaid Bills
Estranged from his parents and briefly homeless, he took out $50,000 in federal loans. He worked as a mental health counselor, a busboy in a bar, a team member at a Whole Foods and a cashier on the night shift at a diner while juggling a full slate of courses. He skipped meals and shared…
A ‘History of Exclusion, of Erasure, of Invisibility.’ Why the Asian-American Story Is Missing From Many U.S. Classrooms
On the morning of March 17, Liz Kleinrock contemplated calling out of work. The shootings at three Atlanta-area spas had happened the night before, leaving eight dead including six women of Asian descent, and Kleinrock, a 33-year-old teacher in Washington, D.C., who is Asian-American, felt the news weighing on her heavily, according to a story in TIME….
Opinion | As a Black Woman Raised by White Parents, I have Some Advice for Potential Adopters
More than half of the Black adopted kindergarteners in the United States are raised by families of another race — usually, White. And while almost always well-meaning, these White adoptive parents must also know and understand the itinerant racism, fetishizing, adultification and stereotyping imposed on their Black children from an early age, according to an opinion by Rebecca…
A List of Anti-Racism Scholarships in Children’s Literature
To help fight racism, consider these organizations that focus on education and children. The Highlights Foundation Diversity Fellowship in Children’s Literature The The Brown Bookshelf Presents: Amplify Black Stories The I, Too Arts, Collective Scholarship Fund The Anti-bias Book Bearer Program & Scholarships The Floyd Cooper Scholarship Fund The Diversify Science Scholarship for Illustrators The Jewish Writers/Illustrators of Color Scholarship Fund…
Anti-Racism Resources for Parents and Teachers
Breaking the pernicious patterns of racism is a process that is recursive, ongoing, and strenuous. This list of resources is a place to begin, and will be added to as items are shared. There is much work to be done. Please join us in your own personal journey towards becoming anti-racist. This is not a…
The Antiscience Movement Is Escalating, Going Global and Killing Thousands
Antiscience has emerged as a dominant and highly lethal force, and one that threatens global security, as much as do terrorism and nuclear proliferation, Scientific American reports. We must mount a counteroffensive and build new infrastructure to combat antiscience, just as we have for these other more widely recognized and established threats, the article says….
Hours After CEO Decried Inequality, JPMorgan Seeks to Quash Call for Racial-Equity Audit
JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Jamie Dimon addressed inequality, racism and corporate responsibility in his annual letter to shareholders, according to MarketWatch. Hours later, the JPMorgan board, which he chairs, urged shareholders to vote against a proposal for a racial-equity audit, the article says. JPMorgan Chase is one of a handful of the nation’s biggest…
The Racist Beginnings of Standardized Testing
With the ravages of Covid-19, the idea that students should be forced to take any sort of standardized test this year is incomprehensible. The priority right now should be on strengthening instruction and support for students and families in communities most traumatized by the impact of the coronavirus, according to an article in NEA magazine by John Rosales…
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