News From A Colorful Perspective
Over the last 25 years, the number of children in U.S. public schools with students of other races has doubled, the Washington Post found, and is indicative of the country’s shifting demographics to more people of color, especially Spanish speakers. However, Black students are more likely than any other race…
At an education town hall in Des Moines, Iowa hosted by the Asian and Latino Coalition, presidential hopeful Joe Biden managed to place his foot into his mouth again and has come under fire on social media. “We should challenge students in these schools that have Advanced Placement programs in…
Narvie Harris Elementary School in Decatur, Ga., faced backlash regarding its discriminatory school policy regarding acceptable natural hairstyles worn by its students. Administrators at the school created and displayed a poster of what they deemed “appropriate” and “inappropriate” hairstyles for class. The advertisement solely featured Black children. Related Story: CROWN…
A group of Black 8th graders were walking home together after school on Wednesday when someone nearby, but not in the group, loudly said something derogatory about the police. It was overheard by a white male officer whose name has yet to be released. The officer confronted the group of…
At the Dillons supermarket in Wichita, Kan., Trace Riff, age 31, kicked a one-year-old Black boy in a racially motivated attack. “We were barely in the store and [Riff] kicked him in his back,” Lashantai Whitaker, mother of the toddler, told KWCH on Wednesday. “All I heard was a loud…
Steven Reeves, a music teacher at Pleasant Run Middle in Cincinnati, sent a letter home for young men to see a barber and young ladies to see a cosmetologist the night before the show. The letter banned natural hairstyles — like “large afros” — specifically worn by Black children at…
Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced that Jazmine Headley, age 23, would not face charges related to her Friday arrest, and called for her immediate release. Justice Craig S. Walker of the State Supreme Court ordered her release. Headley was arrested after the NYPD ripped her infant son from her…
Jasmine Headley, age 23, was carrying her child into a city agency building in Brooklyn where SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) is located, and sat on the floor to wait as there were no more chairs. A bystander, Nyashia Ferguson, who goes by the name Monae Sinclair on Facebook, reported…
Yet again in Ohio, a woman calls the cops on a Black boy for doing an honest job in the neighborhood. As 12-year-old Uriah Sharp walked up to homes in Upper Arlington on Friday to deliver newspapers, a neighbor watched him. It was obvious what he was doing, nevertheless, she…
The marshmallow test, initiated almost 60 years ago to prove less intelligence and potential between Indian and African children, was proven wrong by a new study. The old test, executed by Stanford psychologist Walter Mischel, claimed children who were able to delay gratification and not eat a marshmallow were healthier,…
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