It's well established by now that the challenges posed by the pandemic disproportionately affected students in high-poverty schools, in communities where the internet can be elusive, assistance nonexistent, and even food shortages common. Parents who could not work remotely scrambled to find a place for their kids to spend the day. Many quit their jobs […]
George Floyd's girlfriend taught Daunte Wright, and Fred Hampton's mother babysat Emmett Till; historian Peniel Joseph says these connections are a reminder that echoes of Black pain are always present, even in moments of Black power -- and that true justice requires the dismantling of the systems that allow such deaths to occur in the […]
The most significant Trump-era alliance is between corporate outlets and security state agencies, whose evidence-free claims they unquestioningly disseminate.