OPINION: Black children and youth are falling behind disproportionately and its impact is devastating. theGrio’s ‘What We Have to Lose’ series provides a response to Donald J. Trump’s question posed to Black America on Aug. 19, 2016: “What do you have to lose?” With less […]
The announcement on Tuesday that locally acquired cases of coronavirus had been confirmed in the New Zealand’s biggest city, Auckland, prompted the government to introduce strict level three lockdown measures on August 12. This comes after around 100 days without community spread. The rest […]
Written by Robert Sullivan Photographs by Jade Doskow A little less than two decades ago, the last steaming load of garbage arrived at Fresh Kills Landfill. A packed-high barge turned slowly out of the Arthur Kill — that long, dishwater-brown tidal strait that separates Staten Island from […]
For those children who do walk into class this school year, they could be given a mask that was provided by Serena Williams and others. The tennis star announced on Instagram that she’s helping to distribute more than 4 million masks to students in underserved areas this […]
Written by Nina G. Jablonski, Pennsylvania State University and George Chaplin, Pennsylvania State University OPINION—Race-thinking has been discredited for decades. But it is still with us. Yet race is a historical contingency, not a state of nature. One of the most sinister things about race is that its sibling, racism, […]
More than 97,000 children in the US tested positive for coronavirus in the last two weeks of July, a new report says. The report, published by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children’s Hospital Association, said in those two weeks, there was a 40% increase in child cases […]
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