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Massive layoffs at the Department of Education erode its civil rights division
Only five of the agency’s civil rights offices remain nationwide. Those who are still with the department say it will…
West Africans have a high risk of kidney disease – new study confirms genetic cause
By Samuel Ajayi, University of Ibadan and Yemi R. Raji, University of Ibadan Kidney disease, leading to kidney failure, afflicts…
How Jesse Jackson embodied Southern politics − and changed American elections
By Gibbs Knotts, Coastal Carolina University and Christopher A. Cooper, Western Carolina University Holding hands with other prominent Black leaders,…
Hospital gun-violence prevention programs may be caught in US funding crossfire
DENVER — Seven years ago, Erica Green learned through a Facebook post that her brother had been shot. She rushed…
How Eric Adams has backed a secretive NYPD unit ridden with abuses
In the fall of 2022, the New York Police Department began posting videos online to promote one of its latest…
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s new book Dream Count explores love in all its complicated messiness
By Daria Tunca, Université de Liège Award-winning Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s new novel Dream Count has landed. It’s been…
US funding cuts may affect Nigeria’s fight against terrorism. Here’s how
By Al Chukwuma Okoli, Federal University Lafia The United States decision to cut international aid funding will affect Nigeria in…
DEI initiatives removed from federal agencies that fund science, but scientific research continues
By Filomena Nunes, Michigan State University As soon as President Donald Trump took office on Jan. 20, 2025, he signed…
The US has pardoned insurrectionists twice before – and both times, years of violent racism followed
By Joseph Patrick Kelly, College of Charleston and David Cason, University of North Dakota Donald Trump is the third U.S.…
