Tag: opinion
Tenure Protects Free Speech. Racism Threatens It
By Andre Perry
Nikole Hannah-Jones, who won a Pulitzer prize for her work on the New York Times’ 1619 Project, was recently denied tenure by...
Sharpe-Jefferson: Understanding and Overcoming Anxiety
By Keisa Sharpe-Jefferson
Don’t let anyone tell you that anxiety is not real.
We toss around the word anxiety way too casually, but its effects can...
Jalen Hurts Set The Example For How to Handle Career Storms
By Marcus Bright
There are lessons from college sports that can be transferred to other areas of life, even to higher educational administrative apparatuses. Personnel...
America’s Early Education System is Struggling. How to Fix It
By Yasmina Vinci and David Medina
It’s a crisis within a crisis: The pandemic has badly frayed America’s patchwork system of early education and child development. In Virginia,...
Sharpe-Jefferson: Protecting What We See As Important
By Keisa Sharpe-Jefferson
There was a time I’d spend hours reading. I could grab a good book and get lost in its pages, words and...
Malveaux: How Souls at the Polls Shape Elections
By Julianne Malveaux
The Souls to the Polls movement encourages African American church attendees to get out and vote. The churches that promote this movement...
Jesse Jackson: Legislative Changes Aimed at Black Voters
By The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson
The right to vote is the essential foundation of democracy. Yet today, across America, there is a systematic campaign...
Melanie Bridgeforth: Women are Our Own Saviors and Have Always Been
By Melanie R. Bridgeforth
Gender equity is not inevitable.
Achieving this bold and audacious vision requires not only evolution, but revolution. While reflecting on women’s achievements...
Mullen-Johnson: Being heard and understood are vital in relationships
By Crystal Mullen-Johnson
Validation is the acknowledgment of your feelings, thoughts and behaviors by receiving verbal or nonverbal feedback. It’s essentially experienced by being understood,...
Malveaux: March is the Ideal Month to Lift Black Women’s Organizations
By Julianne Malveaux
March is Women’s History Month. It is the perfect time to lift Black women’s organizations that make such an essential difference in...
