By Kwasi Konadu, Colgate University and Clifford C. Campbell, Dartmouth College [first appeared in The Conversation, used with permission] The 13th Amendment is having a moment of reckoning. Considered one…
By Taylor Dotson, New Mexico Tech [This article first appeared in The Conversation, used with permission] Entering the new year, Americans are increasingly divided. They clash not only over differing…
By Casey D. Cobb, University of Connecticut [first published in The Conversation, used with permission] When people run for school board these days, they often are motivated to campaign on…
By Sharon Austin, University of Florida [This article first appeared in The Conversation, used with permission] On Apr. 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee,…
By Vicki Crawford, Morehouse College [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] For the past 11 years, civil rights historian Vicki Crawford has worked as the director…
By Atinuke Adediran, Fordham University [This article first appeared in The Conversation. Used with permission] About 87% of nonprofit CEOs in the U.S. were white in 2019, down from 90%…
By Arielle Robinson Jennifer Strahan, a Republican hopeful for Georgia’s 14th Congressional District, answered the Courier’s questions about herself and her campaign over the phone Friday afternoon. Strahan is one…
By Barbara Harris Combs, Clark Atlanta University [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] The idea of community and who belongs and who does not was a…
by Craig Silverman, ProPublica, Craig Timberg, The Washington Post, Jeff Kao, ProPublica, and Jeremy B. Merrill, The Washington Post [First appeared in ProPublica and the Washington Post — republished by…
By Ken Hughes, University of Virginia [This story first appeared in The Conversation — used with permission] Now that a full year has passed since the Jan. 6, 2021, assault…