Opinion

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Civil Rights & Social Justice

Not only are police killings of other Black people traumatic events, but that trauma diminishes the ability of Black communities to thrive.

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Kylar Gray, co-editor-in-chief of The Blueprint, writes about relaunching the student paper and what it means for Spelman College.

Education

Standardized tests aren’t that useful at measuring a student’s potential, but there are deeper issues too, involving race and equity. That's why they're becoming archaic.

Pinellas County school district officials announced that Toni Morrison's 'The Bluest Eye' has been pulled from school libraries.

Education

A better understanding of how online racial discrimination affects Black and brown teens’ academic well-being could help reduce the harm.

Waymond "Chef Way" Wesley, a TikTok chef and Texas prosecutor, resigned after backlash from his old tweets disparaging Black women.

Protesters want the store boycotted and the arresting officers to be held accountable.

On Monday, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis defended his administration's decision to reject AP African American studies courses in the Sunshine State.

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There have always been deceptive candidates, but George Santos is different.

Rochelle “Silk” Richardson couldn't even lay her sister, Lynette "Diamond" Hardaway, to rest without allowing a memorial to devolve into a QAnon-style MAGA rally of anti-vaxxers.

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Let’s revisit a classic of that power-abusing genre featuring its greatest star, Richard M. Nixon.

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ disdain for “woke ideology” is on full display. At a January 2023 inaugural event, the governor boasted that “Florida is where woke goes to die.” This is more than political bluster. In just the past month, DeSantis has stacked the board of the New College of Florida, a well-known liberal arts […]