We are happy to announce that our Advisory Council Member, Mr. Benetick Kabua Maddison has been promoted to theExecutive Director of the Marshallese Educational Initiative, Inc. Through educational programming, MEI promotes the cultural,…
An apology by public officials would be the first step toward acknowledgment of government’s role in the sins of our past and the effects that linger today. And it would…
When Netflix's “Bridgerton” Season 2 aired earlier this year, it swept the internet into the kind of frenzy that only a juicy love story can. The show takes place in…
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, Pygmy Indigenous Peoples, who are estimated to represent 600,000 to 1.5 million peoples, are the most vulnerable forest dependent community. Their lifestyle, cultural and…
It's virtually the only area of law enforcement where racial discrimination is officially permitted by policy. And it's both wrong and illegal. Reece Jones of the Texas Observer has a helpful article urging the…
Healthcare systems are failing people of color in every state, with health outcomes and access to quality care among people of color worse than for white people, according to a…
This story was first published on February 11, 2021. Conservation has a long history in the U.S., looking back to the creation of the national parks, and to all of…
The co-founders of the American Descendants of Slavery, a slavery reparations advocacy movement, filed a defamation lawsuit against Harvard University last month over a since-retracted research article that was published…
Mecklenburg County is celebrating women across the county and across the country for Women's Equality Day. For the first time in three years, the Women's Advisory Board is hosting a…
When Mayor Michelle Wu convenes her cabinet for its biweekly meeting, the faces in the room look much like those on the city’s streets: a mixture of whites, Blacks, Latinos…