Diversity Consultant Talks About His Plan to Change CMS

by courageousadmin | Jan 13, 2017 | Media

WBTV reported on the work Pacific Educational Group was doing in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school (CMS) district. PEG Founder Glenn Singleton said before CMS could begin tackling the achievement gap between black and white students, the system would first have to have...

What Happened When One CEO Decided To Talk Openly About Race

by courageousadmin | Dec 23, 2016 | Race

By Emily Peck—Dec. 12, 2016 Talking frankly about race relations isn’t the kind of thing that normally happens at a massive accounting firm. But this past summer, PricewaterhouseCoopers took time out to do just that, starting a conversation that’s now reshaping the...

Asian American Students Join Effort to Protect Affirmative Action at Harvard

by courageousadmin | Dec 23, 2016 | Race

Dec. 14, 2016 Two Asian American students have joined Harvard in its effort to defend the schools affirmative action program for underrepresented students. Both students are from Southern California and are current applicants to Harvard. “Asian students and other...

UGA’s First Black Female Physics Doctoral Graduate Urges Girls to Pursue Sciences

by courageousadmin | Dec 23, 2016 | Race

By Krista Richmond—Dec. 9, 2016 Whitney Ingram’s interest in science started as a girl. This month, she becomes the first African-American woman to earn a doctorate in physics at UGA — and she wants other young girls to do the same. “I hope I can encourage girls to...

One-on-One With Afro-Cubans: What It Means to Be Black in Cuba

by courageousadmin | Dec 6, 2016 | Race

By Henry Louis Gates Jr.—July 18, 2015 I needed to talk to real Cubans and to find out what they thought about race and racism in their society. Soon enough, I was chatting away with our drivers, two men who were part of our film crew named Rafael and Yoxander. They...