Deyanira Nevárez Martínez – Assistant Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, Michigan State University In cities across the U.S., the housing crisis has reached a breaking point. Rents are skyrocketing, homelessness …
Tracey, a high school teacher in the Philadelphia School District, remembers the hurtful comments she heard from parents when she started her career over a decade ago as a young Black teacher …
Quincy Jones, who died on Nov. 3, 2024, at the age of 91, was one of the most influential musicians in U.S. history. You might think such a notable figure would factor …
Wayne Muller – Publications Editor / Research Fellow (Africa Open Institute for Music, Research and Innovation), Stellenbosch University Many people thought that classical opera in South Africa – regarded as …
Jared Bahir Browsh – Assistant Teaching Professor of Critical Sports Studies, University of Colorado Boulder For the first time in 20 years, the NBA began its season with no Black-owned …
The Research Brief is a short take on interesting academic work. Angus Kittelman, Kent McIntosh, Maria Reina Santiago-Rosario and David Markowitz Written teacher comments about students can show implicit racial or ethnic …
Corey D. B. Walker – Wake Forest Professor of the Humanities, Wake Forest University After decades of being celebrated at mostly the local level, Juneteenth – the long-standing holiday that …
Jeremiah Favara – Assistant Professor of Communication Studies, Gonzaga University In his forthcoming book, “Tactical Inclusion: Difference and Vulnerability in U.S. Military Advertising,” Jeremiah Favara, a communication scholar at Gonzaga …
A. Joseph Dial – Disco Network Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Purdue University The film “Air,” which tells the story of Nike’s signing of Michael Jordan, isn’t actually about Michael Jordan at …
Davis W. Houck, Florida State University Carolyn Bryant Donham, the white woman who accused Black teenager Emmett Till of making inappropriate advances toward her in 1955, has died at the age of 88 …