The rollback will ask institutions of higher learning to ignore race on college applications, directly linking back to the broader topic of affirmative action.
Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States, has been the face of the $20 bill since 1928. 87 years later, a women’s group called WomenOn20 are waging an interesting battle to give the bill a new, empowering look! WomenOn20 want to see a historic and significant woman on the bill and have listed […]
There’s a number of Black women who are not too pleased with being excluded from President Obama’s My Brother’s Keeper initiative. This week, Kimberlé Crenshaw (a professor of law at Columbia University and UCLA) held a youth rally in South Central Los Angeles to spark a dialogue around young women of color getting similar treatment […]
The White House recently announced that a new executive order that will prohibit federal contractors from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. The order will cover 28 million workers overall, and what advocates estimate is one in five LGBT employees nationally. This is a huge win for the LGBTQ community! The […]
If you want to be a real-life Oliva Pope or America’s next Black president then you may be in luck! The Obama is administration is looking for undergraduate and graduate Black students to gain work experience in the Oval office. The White House Initiative’s Year-Round Internship Program is interested in interns who want to work […]
