After Upset Win, Kathy Hoffman Will Be Arizona’s First Democratic Superintendent in Decades
Kathy Hoffman, a public school speech therapist, defeated former California congressman Frank Riggs to become Arizona superintendent of public education.Ross D. Franklin/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. While eyes across the country were stuck on the battle between Reps. Kyrsten Sinema and Martha McSally to be Arizona’s next senator, which…
How Trump’s Latest Attack on Transgender Rights Will “Inflict Significant Harm”
Demonstrators gather in front of the White House on Monday to protest the administration’s new memo on defining a person’s sex.Carolyn Kaster/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A Department of Health and Human Services proposal urging federal agencies to narrow the legal definition of a person’s sex “stands to inflict…
The Trump Administration Wants to Narrow the Definition of Gender Identity
A coalition of over 50 LGBTQ rights organizations and New York Elected Officials held an emergency rally to oppose Trump attack on Trans Students at the Stonewall National Monument in New York City, on February 23, 2017. Sipa USA/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Trump administration officials are pushing to narrow the legal…
Charlottesville’s Other Jim Crow Legacy: Separate and Unequal Education
Students walk the hallways between classes at a Charlottesville high school.Andrew Shurtleff/ZUMAPRESS.com Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally co-published by ProPublica and the New York Times. High school seniors Zyahna Bryant and Trinity Hughes have been friends since they were 6 years old, raised by blue-collar families in this affluent…
His Classmates Called Him the N-Word. What This 12-Year-Old Did Next Will Melt Your Heart.
Tarrick Walker with his parents, Darlene and Marcel. Courtesy of John Walker/Fresno Bee Tarrick Walker was playing basketball with a group of friends at his California school when the 12-year-old heard a group of seventh-graders say something. He stopped playing basketball and walked over. “What’s happening?” he asked the group. The response, as Walker recounted it to…
Hoods, Hazing, and Heavy Drinking: A Look Inside an Elite University’s Fraternity Culture
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When photographer Andrew Moisey entered his brother’s fraternity house in 2000, Greek culture—and the toxic male culture often associated with it—had yet to encounter the kind of scrutiny it is experiencing today, and the United States was about to elect George W. Bush, a leader Moisey refers to as…