Collegian | Mykyta Botkins Nicole Lynn Lewis appears virtually as a keynote speaker for Black History Month at Colorado State University Feb. 21. Lewis is an author, activist and CEO of the nonprofit Generation Hope. Generation Hope is an organization that strives to motivate and mentor teen parents and their children. As Black History Month […]
To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. When I was growing up, no Christmas was complete without a variety of brown markers, crayons and colored pencils scattered across our kitchen table for the duration of the holiday season. Well before diversity in merchandising was […]
MEHLVILLE — Every school day since first grade, Heavenly Larry has awakened at 5:30 a.m. to travel from her home in St. Louis to the suburbs of St. Louis County, a journey her mother Yana Larry and more than 75,000 other Black children have made over decades to seek a better education. “In the beginning […]
The Rapid City Area Schools Board of Education passed a resolution updating practices related to COVID-19 on Tuesday night – changes that include eliminating “documentation of close contacts and those in quarantine.” The changes will revise the policies outlined in the school district’s “Ready. Set. Begin. 2021-2022 Back to School Plan.” The motion passed 4-0, […]
Illustration by Laurène Boglio Welcome to this month’s edition of the By the Numbers newsletter. At Spectrum, we do our best to summarize the latest in autism research. Sometimes the best summary is a chart or map. In this newsletter we put interesting new research results in a nutshell, which are conveyed most concisely through […]
Homogeneous crowd: The average percentage of black speakers at neuroscience conferences remains zero, even as institutions commit to increasing diversity. Cimmerier / Getty Images Since the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020, the percentage of black moderators at neuroscience conferences has increased by just 3 percentage points, according to a new analysis. The study, published […]
The daily beast Pilot sensationally confesses the moments of murder on her wife after her funeral, say cops Instagram / Babis Anagnostopoulos For over a month, Babis Anagnostopoulos has insisted that a group of thieves tortured and murdered his wife in front of their 11-month-old daughter – old Caroline Crouch happened after three intruders into […]
My son Nasir and I took our first Mommy and Me swim class shortly after he turned 1. He had always loved sticking his feet in the water on the beach or swimming on my husband’s back, but this was his first experience of learning to immerse himself in a body of water. And although […]
