University of Chicago has agreed to pay $13.5 million to students after being accused of participating in a 'price-fixing cartel' with other prestigious schools to limit financial aid

Also Named in the suit are:
-Brown University
-California Institute of Technology,
-Columbia…

August Wilson transformed American theater with his stories about Black life. Imani Perry on how Wilson became one of the country’s most influential playwrights: theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

How they did Michael Oher

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Michael Oher always hated the Blind Side movie and now comes to find out his “loving parents” were allegedly scamming him the whole time because they saw he could be an NFL player. Movie portrayed him as mentally slow because that helped the white savior plot and helped Sandra…

The national media should be asking Dr. Glenda Glover how she managed to do her job as president all those years, while the state of Tennessee owes Tennessee State University $1,917,395,299 and counting (plus interest) in unpaid land-grant funding, since 1987.

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“if you know no world but your own, you do not know your own as well as you should, just as you do not know your own language as well as you should if you know no language except your own.”

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How Amílcar Cabral shaped Paulo Freire’s pedagogy : New Frame

Frantz Fanon’s influence on Paulo Freire’s thought is well known, but the Brazilian educator also drew considerably from Amílcar Cabral, the revolutionary intellectual from Guinea-Bissau. newframe.com/how-amilcar-ca…

Whitewashing slavery in US schools will teach students anti-Blackness | Donald Earl Collins is also on Threads

Black students who are forced to study a glossed-over version of US history will inevitably internalise anti-Black racism.

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Brain imaging studies show that being in nature is like a balm for the mind, calming worries that overwhelm us. Read Now: The Nature Effect, the second installment of Jefferson’s new yearlong series — only in The Inquirer. #ad Jefferson Health Thomas Jefferson University

Sound of the Police filmmaker tells his son, 'No good can come from a police encounter'

@Hulu doc Sound of the Police directors show stark history of violent policing in Black spaces: 'It's constant'

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This ain’t a Ben Simmons situation… gotta trade him now.

Good leadership/management of a team includes equal parts support and accountability. All accountability, no support creates a culture of compliance. All support, no accountability cripples team growth and performance.

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Colson Whitehead on Blaxploitation Cinema, Sidney Lumet’s New York, and His Own Harlem Trilogy

The Author of Crook Manifesto Discusses the Latest Installment of his Sweeping Crime History of New York City.

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A last minute phone call on Friday informed teachers that the Arkansas Department of Education will not recognize AP African American Studies for course credit by the state.

School starts in 2 days. AP European History continues to be offered for full credit.…

Your kids don’t have to finish everything on their plate.

.Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online forum in honor of the 50th anniversary of #HipHop music and culture.

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How Black Composers Shaped the Sound of American Classical Music

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