“Ensuring equal access to educational opportunity … remains a persistent challenge,” the lead author of a new report wrote.
Topeka, Kansas / United States of America – November 2nd 2019 : Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site. Exterior of building, eastern facade with main entrance. (Shutterstock) By Zachary Schermele Nearly 19 million students in the U.S., or more than a third, attended a public school in the 2020-21 school year where at […]
Mary McLeod Bethune became the first Black person elevated by a state for recognition in the Capitol’s Statuary Hall.
WASHINGTON DC, USA – AUGUST 5, 2016: Statue of Mary Jane McLeod Bethune – an American educator and civil rights activist known for starting a private school for African-American students in Florida. (Shutterstock) By The Associated Press, NBC News WASHINGTON — Civil rights leader and trailblazing educator Mary McLeod Bethune on Wednesday became the first […]
“Choosing your surname gives you that power to say, ‘This is what I’m gonna be called from now on,’” explained genealogist Kenyatta Berry.
By Julia Craven Oluale Kossula: That’s the name author Zora Neale Hurston used when she greeted Cudjo Lewis, the last known survivor of the transatlantic slave trade and the subject of her nonfiction book “Barracoon.” He was delighted at being addressed by the name his mother gave him, according to Hurston’s account of the hours […]
By Nathalie Jimenez, BBC Katrinka Cox lives the American Dream: a green trimmed lawn, poolside lake view, and $1.3m villa she calls home. She is the only black homeowner in her gated Florida community. And despite her financial success, she says her attempts to buy another property are being blocked due to her skin color. […]
“There’s unconscious bias going on everyday,” said Adam Goodman, president of Goodmans Interior Structures. He realized occupational sorting at the company was leading to systematic racism. “United Shades of America” airs Sunday at 10 p.m. ET/PT. CLICK HERE TO WATCH A VIDEO
King County, Washington was found to have the highest eviction filing rate against Black women.
By Kalyn Womack, The Root As the pandemic protections for tenants are lifted, Black women are expected to suffer the most from a potential overflow of evictions, found a USA TODAY investigation. The investigation closely examined King County, Washington which has the highest eviction filing rate for Black women than any other group. Per USA […]
15 former and current Black workers are suing the car company alleging they were subjected to various forms of abuse.
BERLIN – NOVEMBER 09, 2016: Showroom. The full-sized, all-electric, luxury, crossover SUV Tesla Model X. Produced since 2016. (Shuterstock) By Murjani Rawls, The Root A collection of former and current Black Tesla employees have come together to file a lawsuit alleging they were subjected to various forms of racial abuse and harassment while working primarily […]
Discrimination, stigma and systemic barriers in the health care system have already led to a gap in contraceptive access for Black women.
By Claretta Bellamy, NBC News The Supreme Court’s ruling to gut nationwide rights to abortion last week has highlighted the importance of access to birth control, which already proves difficult for many women of color due to discrimination, stigma and systemic barriers in the health care system. While the decision does not directly impact access […]
A search group comprised of Till's family members found the warrant charging Carolyn Bryant Donham of kidnapping.
Simeon Wright, the cousin of Emmett Till at the 50th Anniversary of the march on Washington and Martin Luther King’s I Have A Dream Speech, August 24, 2013 – Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C. (Shutterstock) By Murjani Rawls, The Root A search group comprised of Emmett Till Legacy Foundation members found an unserved warrant charging Carolyn […]
LOS ANGELES – MAY 30, 2020: Participant With Sign Saying Stop Police Brutality At the Protest March Against Police Violence Over Death Of George Floyd. (Shutterstock) By Akron Beacon Journal The hail of more than 90 bullets fired by police at Jayland Walker early Monday sounds like “a whole brick of fireworks going off” in […]
