1+ week, 4+ day ago   (743+ words) The Trump administration is proposing a new rule that would strip private schools and colleges of their tax-exempt status if they provide targeted help to students based on their race, a significant escalation in the White House's campaign to eradicate…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (817+ words) FILE - The Target logo displayed on a sign outside a store, Nov. 18, 2025, in Salem, N.H. Charles Krupa/AP hide caption Retailer Target pulled a children's Halloween costume from its shelves Monday after widespread social media backlash, apologizing for selling a garment…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (402+ words) Jason Arday built his academic career studying race, inequality and education, subjects that would later become inseparable from his own story. A sociologist, he became the youngest Black person ever appointed to a professorship at Cambridge University in 2023. He had…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (60+ words) NPR Jason Arday died following allegations of dishonesty. What lessons were left behind? NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Tyler Austin Harper, a former professor who writes for The Atlantic, about the allegations British academic Jason Arday faced before he was…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (385+ words) NPR's Juana Summers talks with Professor Shaun Harper about the intense media scrutiny of British sociologist Jason Arday and how the scholar's death has reverberated in Black academic circles. Professor Shaun Harper has written about the intense media scrutiny of…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (233+ words) Sociology professor Jason Arday was lauded as the youngest-ever Black professor appointed at the University of Cambridge in 2023. But since landing that position, he’d been, according to his family, “subjected to a campaign of sustained abuse,” stemming from scrutiny about…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago   (660+ words) FILE — Torchbearer Jason Arday carries the Olympic Flame on the Torch Relay leg between Sutton and Merton, in London, July 23, 2012. Joe Giddens/AP via PA hide caption LONDON — A British sociologist who resigned last week from the University of Cambridge…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (238+ words) Black Americans serving in the U.S. military have long lived with a great contradiction. The country they’re fighting to protect is the same one that’s failed to serve and protect them.Despite this, Black Americans continue to enlist. There are over…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (142+ words) As part of a realignment of civil rights enforcement under President Trump, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is seeking to end its annual data collection while also getting rid of a 1979 regulation that allowed employers to take certain steps to…...