Posts by Nicole Martinez
Why the Black Panther Party’s Vision for Education Still Matters
The Black Panther Party had a vision for education that remains unmet but just as important for today’s Black students.
Read MoreSimple Steps to Make Voting Easier
From vote-by-mail to making Election Day a national holiday, voting rights advocates are engaged in myriad efforts to increase voting access.
Read MoreWhy Black Kids Need the Education Dept. — and Why Trump Wants it Gone
Trump and others on the right see the Education Department as a wasteful, “woke” bureaucracy interfering with local control of schools.
Read MoreIn “The Message,” Ta-Nehisi Coates delivers a fiery secular sermon
Ta-Nehisi Coates released a collection of essays, including several about his recent trip to the war-torn West Bank.
Read MoreHumanity and history: a Q&A with “Nat Turner in Jerusalem” director Tyrone Phillips
Tyrone Phillips talks to reporter Robert Chappell about the importance of telling this historical narrative through a Black lens.
Read MoreWho were the United Socialists: The Black anarchist squatters you’ve never heard of
In the early 1900s, Black freedmen combined fringe religion and radical politics into a utopian vision of Oklahoma
Read MoreRevealed: International ‘race science’ network secretly funded by US tech boss
An activist organization discovered that an American Internet has donated $1million to an white supremacist organization.
Read More‘Beyond Black Beauty’ brings together an 1877 classic novel and a Black family in Baltimore
A new take on a classic tale will soon come to Amazon, showing the relationship between horses and their Black owners.
Read MoreTelling the Stories of Wrongful Convictions, One Painstaking Case at a Time
In “Framed,” an advocate for the wrongly accused joins forces with John Grisham to tell stories of justice denied.
Read MoreZero Math Proficiency: The National Impact on Black Students
Multiple factors have led to a frustrating lack of math proficiency by students at Baltimore public schools.
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