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Cheryl Smith: From Seventh-Grade Newsletter to Award-Winning Journalist
Cheryl Smith is an award-winning journalist whose career has spanned over forty years. She has thrived throughout the rapid evolution of the journalism profession and talk radio only reinforces her...
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Trump Begins the Process of Axing the Department of Ed
Fulfilling a campaign promise – one that experts say will significantly harm Black students — President Donald Trump is expected to sign a sweeping executive order today that begins dismantling the...
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Demand Dilemma: April Sha’Lil Sparks Dialogue on Economic Disparities in...
South Dallas has long been a hub of resilience and culture, but it also faces persistent economic challenges. At the South Dallas Cultural Center, multidisciplinary artist and community advocate April...
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Reading the Room: Why Black Kids Need More Than the Norm
When this year’s National Assessment of Educational Progress showed Black kids’ reading proficiency was the lowest of any racial group, some critics blamed education reforms like the Science of...
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Women Lead the Way: Black Women Shape Academia
By Lois Elfman African American women are helping to shape academia — as professors, researchers, deans, and college and university presidents. Although they comprise fewer than 5% of individuals in...
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Trump’s Executive Orders: Impact on Education, Immigration, and Economy
Trump and his team have only been in office for sixty-five days, and in those sixty-five days, he has signed more than 50 executive orders, tanked the economy, deported immigrants on the assumption...
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How Does the Digiverse Still Divide Our Classrooms?
Five years after the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, the world is still taking meetings and hosting lectures from behind a screen. There is plenty of evidence as to how technological advances became not only...
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Why Black Thrivers Are the Future
For decades, Black Americans have been looked at through a deficit lens — what’s missing, what’s broken, what needs fixing. But writer, community planner, and urban strategist Lauren Hood has long...
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Left Behind: How Texas’ Education Overhaul Endangers Students with...
In Texas, the promise of equitable education is under threat. As lawmakers push forward with school voucher programs and calls to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education grow louder, the students...
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Federal Layoffs Present New Barriers for Black K-12 Students
When the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency began making sweeping cuts to the U.S. government, it not only dismantled entire departments and agencies but rattled Black America:...
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