One way to increase teacher diversity: alleviate the type of burnout that is specific to teachers of color. When black male teachers are expected to be the ones to discipline African-American boys ...

It is the weekend before my students arrive for the new school year. I am in my classroom listening to Lofi beats, pondering what has been and what is to come. All around my room are reminders of my ...

At the height of Black farming in the U.S., a million farmers owned almost 17 million acres of land. Between 1920 and 1996, however, Black land ownership dropped by 70 percent and in 2012, there were ...

A panel discussion hosted by the Witching Hour and Little Village on Oct. 21 at the Iowa City Public Library explored the thoughts and experiences of women of color. The panel, “Invisible and Ignored, ...

Late last year, 17-year-old Leelah Alcorn made headlines after she stepped out into oncoming traffic along Interstate 71 near her Ohio home. Her death by suicide came with a note, posted automatically ...

Teachers of color are being hired at a faster clip than white teachers, but progress in hiring doesn’t necessarily mean progress in retaining teachers, finds a report by the Education Trust and Teach ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Women, and especially women of color, remain underrepresented in clinical trials. This drives disparities in ...

Saturation refers to the depth, or richness, of a color: pastels are examples of highly desaturated colors. At the photoreceptor layer, saturation originates from imbalances in the relative response ...

The trickiest part of avoiding exposure to toxic substances is that they’re often invisible, odorless, and undetectable to our five senses. And as an alternative to expensive detectors and other ...

Last year, 12 transgender women of color were murdered. While their tragic deaths have been documented on LGBT blogs, for the most part, their killings ceased to garner mainstream attention. So far ...