The Trump administration will encourage the nation’s school superintendents and college presidents to adopt race-blind admissions standards, abandoning an Obama administration policy that called on universities to consider race as a factor in diversifying their campuses, administration officials said.
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D.C. on ‘Cusp’ of Gold Standard for Health | The Washington Informer
The District has again earned a citation as one of America’s healthiest cities.
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Why I’ll Be Choosing My Next Therapist by Race | Glamour
For generations strength meant survival; illness of any kind meant weakness (and danger), and God was the only therapy you’d need.
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‘Black Panther’ Princess Letitia Wright Is Ready To Rule If Required | Deadline
Shuri’s fate was left unclear at the end of the Infinity War film. However, in the comic books, her genius-level intellect, martial arts skills, and transmorphic ability saw her tested and approved for the role of Black Panther and ruler of Wakanda.
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Alabama HBCU Apologizes 58 Years After Expelling 9 Students for Sit-In Protest | Atlanta Black Star
“What happened to these individuals, these students and the faculty, in my mind, is a crime.”
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As Obama Presidential Center comes closer to reality, tensions on race, class surface | Chicago Tribune
The Obama Foundation’s plans to build the Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park have sparked a complicated, and at times emotional, conversation about race, class, segregation, privilege and power on the South Side.
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A Civil-Rights Icon Urges Law Grads to Defend Free Speech | The Atlantic
Eleanor Holmes Norton used a commencement address at Georgetown to argue that securing positive, lasting change in America requires letting all sides have their say.
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Roxane Gay: ‘No one is guaranteed love or affection’ | The Guardian
The author of Bad Feminist and Hunger has strong words for ‘incels’, harassers in publishing and diet gurus
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MSNBC host Joy Reid apologizes for incendiary old blog posts | The Philadelphia Tribune
“I’m sorry for the collateral damage and pain this is causing individuals and communities caught in the crossfire…”
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‘It Does Something to Your Soul When Everyone Losing Their Homes Looks Like You’ | Politico
In Durham, a young lawyer raised in public housing teaches elite law students to save poor people from eviction.
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