by courageousadmin | Apr 24, 2017 | Race
By Manuela Pulido—April 21, 2017 A big change surprised everyone in Coachella this year. Since it emerged out of the alternative rock scene in 1999, the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival has featured many acts spanning hip-hop, folk, EDM, pop, heavy metal and...
by courageousadmin | Mar 10, 2017 | Race
By Brittney Cooper—Feb. 27, 2017 The Academy Awards did the best possible thing in the worst possible way last night, when it conferred Moonlight the Oscar for Best Picture. This exquisite coming-of-age tale about a black boy struggling to embrace queer masculinity...
by courageousadmin | Mar 1, 2017 | Race
By Stephany Bai—Feb. 13, 2017 South by Southwest (SXSW) is scheduled to stage its first Asian-American music showcase as well as a panel on Asian-American issues this March, according to a non-profit arts organization working with the festival. Christine Minji Chang,...
by courageousadmin | Mar 1, 2017 | Race
By Sameer Rao—Feb. 13, 2017 Like the Super Bowl and Golden Globes before it, the 59th Grammy Awards ceremony last night (February 13) became a platform for political and creative statements at the intersection of music, race and activism. Here are the moments where...
by courageousadmin | Mar 1, 2017 | Race
May 17, 2016 While the country, as a whole, likes to believe that we’ve achieved the utopian vision of equality, the sad truth is that inequality persists in all sectors of society. The extent of that inequality is more than evident in the latest research brief...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
