Active Minds
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
For those searching for a way to unite people of all different backgrounds through inspiring storytelling … consider booking an Active Minds Speaker for your next school or community event! The curriculum contains thirteen discussion guides rooted in mental health literacy and social-emotional development.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 14, 2023
“Today, many state leaders have increasingly advocated for the banning of African American studies and have proposed curriculum changes that downplay the significance of slavery in the U.S.,” In the face of curriculum and book bans and the devaluing of Black history, it is imperative to amplify and uphold African American history.”
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
As debates over how students should learn about race heat up and K-12 schools ban more and more books, it’s an increasingly urgent concern. If I’m a Black child, and I read about myself in a book, I need to read that I have agency over my life just like when I read about a white character.” Any censorship of any kind is bad,” she said.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
APRIL 13, 2024
F2L — a group of educators, artists, advocates, and policy makers opposing the book bans and attacks on educational curriculum — wants everyone to resist anti-DEI movements on that day and be loud about what they do, whether that’s reading banned-book author Toni Morrison or engage in a more active demonstration.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 27, 2024
She and other scholars underlined the critical importance of HBCUs and an inclusive, expansive history curriculum being taught to students K-12 and beyond. Dunbar shared her stories with the gathered crowd on the final day of the College Board’s "A Dream Deferred: a Historically Black College and University (HBCU) Conference."
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 28, 2023
In his seminal book, Ebony and Ivy , Craig Wilder offers a compelling narrative on the hand-in-glove relationship between white supremacy and the initial development of the American academy.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 22, 2022
Traci Morris, a member of the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma, has worked with Native American tribes, tribal businesses as well as artists and non-profits; she has also written a college-accredited curriculum in Native American new media and has advocated for digital inclusion on Capitol Hill and before the Federal Communications Commission.
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