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Teachable Moment

By: Dr. Cassandra Herring, president and CEO, Branch Alliance for Educator Diversity

In California, shelter in place orders closed schools in March and, more recently, for the rest of the school year. Across the country, hundreds of

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In Celebration of Women All Over the World

By: Amber O'Connor, program manager II

Sunday, March 8 was International Women’s Day (IWD), a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. According to the International

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I Found a Deep Sense of Sisterhood at Spelman

By: Cheryl Williams, vice president, Women’s Congressional Policy Institute

Why did you choose an HBCU? Both of my parents attended Howard University, an HBCU, so I was very familiar with what HBCUs had to

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Empowering Hispanic Students and their Families

By: Lori Swartzendruber, senior program manager and Dr. Nancy Lewin, program director

ACT’s Center for Equity in Learning focuses on closing gaps in equity, opportunity, and achievement for underserved populations through purposeful investments and thoughtful advocacy efforts.

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Racial Inequality is Our History, but it Doesn’t Have to be Our Future

By: Tiffany Jones, Ph.D., senior director for higher education policy and Andrew Nichols, Ph.D., senior director for higher education research, The Education Trust

As we celebrate Black History Month and the vast contributions of African Americans to this country, let’s not forget the struggles and inequities that continue

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