By Sheena Foster
When I first began to think about the prompt, The Courage to Belong, I must admit I was perplexed because my first thought was, don’t we already belong? We are human, a “custodial species” (Yunkaporta, 2020, p. 51), and as the late great Nikki Giovanni importantly observed, “we’re Earthlings”
By Dr. Ellen Kimbrough Alexandrakis
Texas has been a battleground over religion in public schools for decades. In 2009, the State Board of Education (SBOE) rewrote its science standards and fought over how, or if, to teach evolution. When scientists urged the board to provide more definitive evidence of evolution in the teaching standards…
By Allison Henrich
In 1886, twenty-four years after the first mathematics PhD was awarded in the United States, a woman finally earned one. Last year, we celebrated the centennial of Elbert Frank Cox earning a PhD, the first Black man in the world to do so…
By James Falzone
The Duke William pub in the village of Stourbridge, England, a 35-minute train ride west of Birmingham, is an Edwardian-era structure located on the high street next to a chip shop. It is a quintessential “local,” where you might meet a friend for a pint or bring your kids for meat pies when you don’t feel like cooking…