US music education has a history of anti-Blackness that is finally being confronted
By Philip Ewell, Hunter College When it comes to achieving racial diversity, music education at the university level in the U.S. still has a long way to go. One of…
By Philip Ewell, Hunter College When it comes to achieving racial diversity, music education at the university level in the U.S. still has a long way to go. One of…
This story was originally published by The 19th By Mel Leonor Barclay, The 19th Democratic Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester is officially running for the open Senate seat in deep-blue Delaware,…
By Nicolette Manglos-Weber, Boston University Uganda recently signed an anti-gay bill into law. Called by some the “worst of its kind in the world,” the law imposes life imprisonment for…
By Rob Book, University of Southern Denmark When a young athlete is drafted into the NBA – as 58 players are expected to be on Thursday, June 22, 2023 –…
By Raphael E. Rogers, Clark University Whenever I tell high school students in classes I visit that I appreciated learning about slavery as a child growing up in the Caribbean,…
By David B. Parker, Kennesaw State University The Atlanta Journal-Constitution recently published a story about a Black cemetery in Buckhead, a prosperous Atlanta community. The cemetery broke ground almost two…
By Yasmin Moll, University of Michigan Jada Pinkett Smith’s new Netflix documentary series on Cleopatra aims to spotlight powerful African queens. “We don’t often get to see or hear stories…
By Anthony Alvarez, Rutgers University - Newark How can neighborhoods gentrify without erasing their heart and voice? It’s an important question to ask now, I’d suggest, since many communities across the…
By Christopher Tounsel, University of Washington The war in Sudan between two rival generals for control of the country is devastating in so many ways. Hundreds of civilians have been…
By Howard Manly, The Conversation The debate about reparations to descendants of enslaved people rages on. In California, the state’s reparations task force has estimated that the descendants of former…