The publisher ultimately apologized and admitted its language in the textbook “did not adequately convey that Africans were both forced into migration and to labor against their will as slaves.” Written by Bruce C.T. Wright SHE WAS A HISTORICAL ICON Source: Screenshot Dr. Roni Dean-Burren, a Texas mother and education activist who made national headlines Read More…
Source: Mark Makela / Getty Across the United States, arrest rates for young people under age 18 have been declining for decades. However, the proportion of youth arrests associated with school incidents has increased. According to the U.S. Department of Education, K-12 schools referred nearly 230,000 students to law enforcement during the school year that Read More…
Nationwide — Rapper/actor Chris Bridges, more popularly known as Ludacris, is set to produce a new animated series called Karma’s World inspired by his eldest daughter Karma Bridges. The series will be released on Netflix soon. Ludacris’ production company Karma’s World Entertainment is one of the producers of the coming-of-age story that will follow the Read More…
Climate change can result in the spread of infectious diseases such as anthrax (Credit: Getty Images) As temperatures shift, animals move to different regions and pathogens have more opportunities to jump between hosts. Could the next pandemic be fuelled by an unstable climate? When temperatures rise, everything changes and disease arrives. As the thick ice Read More…
“I brought home a homeless person when I was a kid. His mother abandoned him when he was away at school. When the school year ended, he went home and there wasn’t anyone living there, no note, phone number, or forwarding address. So, he was just sitting in the park, in the rain. I found Read More…
Nationwide — In the aftermath of a global pandemic, there emerges an issue that has persisted far longer and yet remains largely unaddressed: the ever-widening mathematical gap faced by Black students in the U.S. The country has seen a decline in math scores since the onset of the pandemic, but for Black children, this Read More…
