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Brown’s Racial and Socioeconomic Cliques Reflect Flawed Diversity Promises
Money and race divide Brown students into cliques. Brown promised us upon admission that we would connect with individuals of various...
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Apr 18, 20237 min read


The New Ariel: Black Representation in Film
Red hair, pale skin, and blue eyes. These are the features that people tend to associate with Ariel from Disney’s 1989 classic The Little...
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Mar 26, 20235 min read


Sculpting Our Institutions: Artists’ role in decolonizing museums
Museums are often seen as celebrations of culture and collective memory, but their colonialist histories and racist practices are seldom...
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Jan 8, 20215 min read


Appropriated Pseudonyms: The Ethics of Literary Hoaxes
In 2015, one of the selected poems in “The Best American Poetry” included Yi-Fen Chou’s “The Bees, the Flowers, Jesus, Ancient Tigers,...
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Mar 8, 20195 min read


Model Learning: Closing the Teacher Diversity Gap
In 2014—for the first time ever—pupils of color accounted for more than half of the pupils in public schools. This demographic shift,...
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May 28, 20183 min read


More than Meets the Eye: Hip-Hop and Social Currents
Quavo, a rapper from the Atlanta hip-hop trio Migos, wants a featured verse on the United States’ national anthem. A Migos fan started a...
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Jan 6, 20185 min read


Time to Be Heard: Diversifying Social Studies Curricula
Misunderstandings and failures of communication have long plagued social activism and its subsequent role in political discourse....
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Dec 23, 20165 min read


Discriminatory Discipline
There’s no denying that the US education system is trigger-happy when it comes to passing out suspensions. According to some reports, 1...
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Dec 10, 20165 min read


A Small Victory for Diversity: Bilingual Education in California
The week before the US presidential election, then-Democratic Vice Presidential Candidate Tim Kaine made history by delivering the first...
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Dec 6, 20164 min read


Beyond the Oscars: Probing the Unrepresentative Film Industry
Every year, the front three or four rows of the Dolby Theater, the permanent home of the Academy Awards, are reserved for nominees, past...
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Mar 1, 20167 min read


The Dangerous Mind: Unconscious Bias In Higher Education
The challenge of accessing higher education doesn’t disappear with the arrival of a college acceptance letter. Even those fortunate...
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Apr 11, 20154 min read
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