Education

480,000 students affected as Los Angeles teachers go on strike for better wages, conditions

Black excellence?: How a school abused Black students & got fame for sending them to Ivy Leagues

#Data4BlackLives conference highlights how technology and race interact

Voting rights restored to former felons in Florida, but lawmakers may add legal hurdles

Exposing children to examples of protest plants the seeds for them to fight for justice

Black Miami student says she was accused of cheating after improving SAT scores, hires lawyer

Sudanese doctors and journalists go on strike against government in midst of deadly protests

Anti-Black bullying in schools devastates children. We need to invest in their healing

Parents outraged as New Orleans votes to become the first major city in America with an all charter school system

Senate passes the First Step Act with notable bipartisan support. What comes next?

Betsy DeVos to roll back school racial discrimination rules enacted by the Obama administration

Muslim school speech pathologist fired over refusing to agree to pro-Israel pledge

Tennessee Governor will give answer on Cyntoia Brown’s clemency before he leaves office

Google CEO finally grilled by Congress over data & censorship, but conservatives try to make it all about them

U.S. Supreme Court secures a surprise win for Planned Parenthood… for now

A Black woman-led Philly non-profit hopes to revolutionize how we teach sex ed to girls

New Muslim congresswoman Rashida Tlaib will lead a first congressional delegation to Israeli-occupied West Bank

CNN fires Marc Lamont Hill for advocating for Palestinian freedom

Trump admin is sticking to their absurd story that their own frightening climate change report is wrong

Chickenpox outbreak at North Carolina school where many parents opted out of vaccines is state’s worst in 20 years

ICE and the DEA are paying for hidden streetlight cameras to be watch you all across the country

The CDC predicts Congo’s Ebola outbreak may not be able to be contained

Google employees stage mass walkout over sexual harassment and other workplace issues

Texas voting machine errors and draconian voter registration laws combine to spur voter disenfranchisement in the state

Being a Black teacher is not enough for Black children

Florida International University right wing student group under fire over racist messages and rape jokes

Canada becomes second country to legalize marijuana, and also creates pathway to pardon past drug offenders

As Facebook is sued over inflated video metrics, shareholders call on Mark Zuckerberg to resign

The ACLU is fighting against ‘predictive crime algorithms’ in court

After exploiting her for research, Johns Hopkins University to name building after Henrietta Lacks

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