Latest from Nadra Nittle
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Cal State LA has a woman president for the first time — and she’s off to an eventful start
Berenecea Johnson Eanes has already experienced her first faculty strike as a leader in the nation’s largest university system.
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Even dictionaries aren’t safe from censorship in this Florida school district
Escambia County’s school district was already facing a lawsuit over banned books on LGBTQ+ subjects and race. Officials kept removing books anyway under a new Florida law.
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Student loan repayments put a damper on holiday spending — especially for Gen Z and millennials
Borrowers who were already struggling to make ends meet before the pandemic payment pause ended in October are now holiday shopping on an ultra-tight budget.
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How a group of grandparents is mobilizing to push back against Moms for Liberty
Grandparents for Truth, a project of progressive advocacy group People for the American Way, is working to fight book bans, right-wing school boards and what it describes as authoritarianism in the nation’s schools.
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Activists in California school district turn in enough signatures to seek recall race against far-right president
Joseph Komrosky leads the Temecula, California, school board that’s faced national scrutiny for banning critical race theory, endorsing book banning and firing the woman superintendent.
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Three school board members moved this California district to the far right. Women lead the effort to recall them.
The Temecula Valley Unified School District’s conservative majority has ousted its woman superintendent, banned critical race theory and passed a policy to “out” LGBTQ+ students to their parents.
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The Spelman College community has stood in solidarity with Palestinians for years
Students and faculty at the historically Black women's college feel a connection to the racial, economic and gender injustices they say Palestinians face.
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New book explores the influences behind the life and work of bell hooks
An excerpt from ‘bell hooks’ Spiritual Vision’ by The 19th’s Nadra Nittle examines the late feminist's views on the role of religion in women’s liberation.
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The Hoodwitch's Bri Luna — one of the nation’s most influential witches — releases first book for Halloween
Her beautifully crafted debut, “Blood Sex Magic,” is part memoir and part grimoire, with cultural criticism, personal observations — and spells.
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'They're just not enough': Students push to improve sexual assault prevention trainings for college men
A first-of-its-kind study from It’s On Us found that just 45 percent of college men receive sexual assault prevention training.