Category: Black Finance

Women’s History Month is a celebration of trailblazers, innovators, champions and advocates. We salute these women year-round, not just in March: Rosalynn Carter | Kizzmekia Corbett | Abigail Dillen | Marcia Fudge | Suzan Shown Harjo | Dolores Huerta | Sherrilyn Ifill | Blair Imani | Maya Lin | Cynthia Marshall | Sylvia Mendez |

The high school student explained her plan: Go to college, then become a veterinarian. “Tell me,” replied Rachel Pfeifer, the college and career leader for Baltimore City Public Schools, “is there anything you are doing to move you to that goal?” The teen explained that to get to college faster, she hoped to graduate from

Today is Monday. Welcome to Equilibrium, a newsletter that tracks the growing global battle over the future of sustainability. Subscribe here. People in search of treatments for certain ailments are putting increasing pressure on populations of the Sonoran desert toad — a Southwestern species whose venom is harvested for its psychedelic properties, The New York

It has been well established that in academia Democrats outnumber Republicans and Liberals outnumber Conservatives. While this indisputable fact has been longstanding, there was a time when the college campus was still thought to be THE place for the free expression of ideas and reasonable debate on the issues of the day. That is no

By Zack Haber Staff who work at Community Day School, which Oakland Unified School District’s Board has scheduled for closure at the end of the academic year, expressed frustration to The Oakland Post about the possibility of the site’s campus being developed into housing. According to OUSD Director of Communication John Sasaki, Board president Gary

Ricky Volante wanted to pay college athletes, and he had a damn good plan to do it. He just needed money, which is why he was standing outside the Roman Colosseum, with earphones, interrupting his own honeymoon to take a conference call with a potential patron. It was March 2019, and Volante, a sports and

By Antonio R. Harvey | OBSERVER Staff Writer American River College President Melanie Dixon was the victim of racist threats recently. A suspect has been arrested for the incident. OBSERVER file photo The Los Rios Police Department (LRPD) arrested Jamie Barnes on March 15 for violating a court-ordered restraining order for allegedly making racist threats

Above and Beyond: It’s an admittedly abstruse title for a list honoring a select group of women making a difference in Pennsylvania. But within those three words can be found not just a catalyst for

By Zack Haber Staff who work at Community Day School, which Oakland Unified School District’s Board has scheduled for closure at the end of the academic year, expressed frustration to The Oakland Post about the possibility of the site’s campus being developed into housing. According to OUSD Director of Communication John Sasaki, Board president Gary

By Zack Haber Staff who work at Community Day School, which Oakland Unified School District’s Board has scheduled for closure at the end of the academic year, expressed frustration to The Oakland Post about the possibility of the site’s campus being developed into housing. According to OUSD Director of Communication John Sasaki, Board president Gary