by courageousadmin | Aug 17, 2018 | Media
KUT 90.5 featured a story on Pacific Educational Group’s work in Austin, TX, in which the city’s mayor has advocated for PEG’s Beyond Diversity training for all Austin residents. An excerpt from the story: In 2016, Austin Mayor Steve Adler convened a...
by courageousadmin | Jul 26, 2018 | Media
PEG Founder and President Glenn Singleton appeared on WNYC’s “The Takeaway” to discuss race and the college admissions process. Justice Anthony Kennedy recently announced that he will be retiring soon, which means there will be an open seat in the...
by courageousadmin | Jul 12, 2018 | Race
By Michael Donkor—July 7 2018 On an overcast day in Oxford in 2003, a few weeks into the first year of an English literature degree, I found myself doing something out of character. I broke a rule. Rather than going to my scheduled tutorial, rather than sitting on the...
by courageousadmin | Jul 12, 2018 | Race
June 14th, 2018 The public face of racial discrimination is usually an African American, or possibly Latino. However, members of any minority can face bias and prejudice at work and in their day-to-day lives. Tribal members, and others who identify as Native...
by courageousadmin | Jul 12, 2018 | Race
By Claire White—June 12, 2018 Does calling offensive behavior “a joke” detract from degradation inflicted at someone’s expense? Is humor usually a deflection from assessing our insecurities? Can people thrive without fully embracing parts of themselves and their...
by courageousadmin | Jun 24, 2018 | Race
By Gabriela Thorne—June 13, 2018 “You don’t look Latina” and “You’re not Latina” were common phrases I heard growing up. For many, my brown skin and super-curly hair didn’t match up with their image of what a Latina was supposed to look like. It didn’t matter...
by courageousadmin | Jun 24, 2018 | Race
By Elijah Anderson—June 9, 2018 Almost every black person in America has experienced the sting of disrespect on the basis of being black. A large but undetermined number of black people feel acutely disrespected in their everyday lives, discrimination they see as both...
by courageousadmin | Jun 24, 2018 | Race
By Robert Abare—June 7, 2018 Recent instances of people calling the police against black people for going about their daily lives have involved a former Obama White House official moving into his home and a graduate student at Yale University napping in a common room....
by courageousadmin | Jun 24, 2018 | Race
By Alia E. Dastagir—May 28, 2018 On Tuesday, Starbucks will close more than 8,000 stores in the U.S. to conduct employee training “to address implicit bias” and “prevent discrimination” after two black men were arrested at a Philadelphia store...
by courageousadmin | Jun 24, 2018 | Race
By Richard J. Reddick—May 15, 2018 It has been a banner year for discrimination. Two recent events on college campuses at Colorado State University and Yale bring issues of hyper-surveillance and white supremacy to the forefront. At Colorado State University, a White...
