February 2022

What was once a novel idea to organize college basketball around issues of equality and inclusion has come into full fruition during the month of February. The Rising Coaches Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Alliance, which is made of a dozen minority and social justice coaching organizations, issued the call for men’s and women’s college […]

Lia Thomas broke records when she raced the 100-meter freestyle at the Ivy League Championships this month. It was just one more record-breaking run for the University of Pennsylvania athlete. But her victory was not met with uproarious congratulations. Instead, headlines and social media posts praised those she left in her wake as the real

                                                                                                        “A Black man had no rights which the white man was bound to respect,” Chief Justice Roger B. Taney On Sunday afternoon, I spent a little time after preaching and meeting the congregation with a bit of tv time, mostly playing in the background. But since I do have a master’s degree

Dr. Neha John-Henderson is tired of doom and gloom narratives. “This idea that if you’ve had a lot of childhood trauma, you’re doomed to have bad health. Or, if you were raised in a low-income environment, you’re told, ‘Sorry, you’re going to be at greater risk for all these diseases as an adult,’” says John-Henderson,

Lisa King, director of the American College Application Campaign at ACT’s Center for Equity in LearningA new report released by the ACT college readiness exam nonprofit organization found that participation in college preparatory activities increases a student’s likelihood of attending college. But those same results showed that 46% of the class or 2021 had one

Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers.Forty percent (40%) of adjunct professors working in the U.S. needed government assistance to make ends meet during the early months of the pandemic, and 25% earned a salary below the federal poverty level. These are the results of a survey conducted by the American Federation of

Earlier this year, IBM and Merck & Co. announced a national hiring and training network designed to support the careers of Black workers. The network is an outgrowth of OneTen, a new coalition of more than 50 major corporations — including AT&T, Target, and Walmart — that is aiming to hire and promote 1 million Black workers

Frederick Community College (FCC) has announced its new president, Dr. Annesa Cheek. She will take over the leadership for interim president Dr. Thomas Powell.  Dr. Annesa Cheek In a response to the Board’s announcement, Cheek said her enthusiasm for FCC was “evident and inspiring.” “I could not be more excited about my new role and

Kayla Dio Robinson, at NASA.Kayla Dio Robinson has been fascinated by space for as long as she can remember. She received her first telescope from her father when she was ten. In the years since, her teachers and professors helped turn that fascination into a budding career. Robinson is now a mission telemetry engineer at

Netflix’s co-CEO Reed Hastings and wife Patty QuillinDrew Altizer PhotographyReed Hastings, co-CEO of Netflix, and his wife, Patty Quillin, an independent film producer, are donating $10 million to Tougaloo College, one of the nation’s historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), and to the college’s partnership with Brown University. “HBCUs have been vastly undervalued for a