As of 2022, approximately 46 million Americans owe a total of nearly $1.75 trillion in U.S. student loan debt, according to federal student aid data. Women carry about two-thirds of that debt. Amid ongoing health and economic emergencies, the U.S. Department of Education issued a federal pause on student loan

Caption: African American Photographs Assembled for 1900 Paris Exposition in a public domain photograph via Wikimedia Commons. Each year, National Fair Housing Month is celebrated in April in honor of the Fair Housing Act which was signed into law by “President Lyndon B. Johnson on April 11, 1968.  The act made “discrimination

Women’s League, Newport, R.I. African American Photographs Assembled for 1900 Paris Exposition, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons “Black History in Two Minutes (or so),” (BH2M), a three-time Webby-Award winning video podcast series won its most recent Webby Award for Social Education & Discovery (Video) 2022. Celebrating the Black Feminist Movement

An image taken at the Smithsonian’s “#IfThenSheCan – The Exhibit,” by IF/THEN On March 5, 2022, The Smithsonian celebrated Women’s History Month by launching a month-long exhibition of 120 neon-orange statues depicting prominent women who have or are currently excelling in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields. “#IfThenSheCan – The

In April 2022, according to Blackstar News,  The Eagle Academy Foundation – a non-profit dedicated to “creating a new pipeline of academic and social success for inner-city young men,” – announced that they had teamed up with two Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Spelman College and Morehouse College, to

The U.S. has been increasing the integration of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) in the education system since the acronym was coined in 2001 by the U.S. National Science Foundation. Now, as the world moves into the fourth industrial revolution, there has been a growing call to prioritize arts