By Anjali Huynh and Michelle Krupa Dasia Taylor didn’t expect to become a nationally recognized scientist at 17 years old. The Iowa student has dedicated her life to equity work, from serving as one of her school district’s diversity equity leaders to
By Paul LeBlanc and Phil Mattingly, CNN Washington is staring down a bumpy road to infrastructure consensus. The Biden administration’s roughly $2 trillion proposal focused on infrastructure and the climate crisis enters a critical week on Capitol Hill as congressional Republicans wrestle
Shirley Ann Jackson and Lisa Gelobter are both pioneers of science as well as advocates for social justice. An American physicist, Jackson has been involved in several organizations such as the National Society of Black Physicists and the New Jersey Commission on
Opinion by Mitch Landrieu Racism remains this nation’s Achilles’ heel. If we do not face it and fix it, we will continue to suffer. The news in the past few weeks, from the police shooting of Daunte Wright to the debate about
By Skylar Mitchell It is no secret that at some point, something went very wrong at Morris Brown College. It was a disappointing, though not unfamiliar story. A school with a dedicated faculty and loyal students had run into financial challenges that
By Eric Levenson, CNN Prosecutors and the defense will offer competing visions of Derek Chauvin’s role in George Floyd’s death during closing arguments Monday in the former Minneapolis officer’s criminal trial. For the prosecution, that means drilling home their concise argument that
By Arlette Saenz As all Americans 16 years and older become eligible for the vaccine on Monday, the White House is launching a media blitz to raise awareness about Americans’ vaccine eligibility, an administration official said. Earlier this month, President Joe Biden
American inventors Marie Van Brittan Brown and Marian R. Croak have made remarkable contributions with their creations such as the home security system. Van Brittan Brown invented the first closed-circuit television security system, which served as a model for modern home security
Two women who refused to back down in the face of adversity, Ella Baker and Opal Tometi are warriors of justice. A leader of the Civil Rights Movement, Ella Baker was involved with some of the most notable organizations including the NAACP
Analysis by Lisa Respers France The death of pioneering “Saturday Night Live” writer Anne Beatts last week was a reminder of the strides made by women in comedy — and the work toward equity that remains. Beatts, who died at the age
