In 2020, Aurora James launched “The Fifteen Percent Pledge,” a commitment to reserve 15 percent of shelf space for Black businesses. Nearly 30 major retailers are still on board.
“Hillbilly Elegy” contains profanity, references to LGBTQ+ people and passages celebrating diversity — features that may conflict with Trump administration executive orders.
Trump’s pick to lead DOE faced questions about whether she agrees with the president’s plan to close the department and enact Project 2025’s vision for schools.
The president can’t eliminate a federal agency with an executive order lawfully. But he can undermine its functions and redistribute duties.
Critics of Trump's education department view the dismissal of Biden's Title IX rewrite as yet another anti-trans attack.
In South Carolina and nationally, the push against censorship continues under a Trump administration that denies reading restrictions are happening.
She was a key figure of the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s who championed women’s power in civil rights activism — and their own lives.
After losing a recall election in June, controversial former Temecula, California, school board president Joseph Komrosky will represent the district once again.
If she becomes education secretary, Linda McMahon could revise Title IX rules that serve to protect students from sex discrimination, including sexual violence.
McMahon, cofounder of the company now known as World Wrestling Entertainment, is the co-chair of the president-elect’s transition team but has scant experience in education.