Education

Elon Musk faces growing criticism over his contributions to Republican Political Action Committees

New study shows childhood trauma’s wide intergenerational impact

Judge says Detroit schools aren’t required to teach to basic standards, tosses case against Michigan

New study shows that focus on appearance creates big barriers for Black women in sports

Rwandan publishing house Imagine We is cultivating African storytelling for global readers

Black woman was slated to be on a historic space launch. NASA removed her with no explanation

The Obsidian Collection and Google are working to digitize Black legacy newspapers for a modern world

New concerns over shifting costs to patients as private equity firms gobble up health care providers

As the FCC’s Net Neutrality repeal goes into effect, states issue lawsuits to fight internet deregulation

Urban planning pioneer Toni Griffin wins award after subverting rules to highlight segregation

Study: GOP judges give Black people longer sentences, women shorter. What about Black women?

Study: Puerto Rico death toll 4x higher than official number given after Hurricane Maria

We need to acknowledge genocides outside of the European/Jewish Holocaust

Betsy DeVos says schools can call ICE on undocumented students, activists push back

Amazon is selling face recognition software to police departments. What could go wrong?

In the wake of the Facebook scandal, Google’s data collection practices come under scrutiny

North Carolina educators are the latest to protest in nationwide “Teacher Revolt”

Education Dept declaws task force dedicated to investigating for profit college abuses

UT Austin ‘Restrictive Masculinity’ program under pressure by administration after right-wing criticism

A team of Black girls were winning a NASA competition, then NASA switched up the rules

13-year-old #1000BlackGirlBooks creator interviews 11-year-old March for Our Lives advocate about honoring Black girls

Q-Tip will teach course on intersections of jazz & hip-hop at NYU this fall

UCPD’s shooting of student in mental health crisis highlights the academy’s role in police brutality

Bioethics prof Deleso Alford explains why MLK calling healthcare inequity the most ‘inhumane’ injustice matters today

Facing backlash, Grindr announces plan to stop sharing sensitive user info including HIV status

We need to prioritize Black girls in the conversation about police in schools

Apple proposes to include new emojis that reflect users’ lives with disabilities

Here’s how Facebook and Cambridge Analytica harvested data from 50 million users for conservative political ads

After Uber’s self-driving car kills a woman in Arizona, company halts self-driving car tests

Florida middle school teacher warns students not to date boys who act “like a n—-,” is suspended

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