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An Activist-Scholar

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Find ways to take pleasure in your work now, because this is such a rewarding job.” For as long as she can remember, Dr. Lori Kido Lopez has been passionate about media and Asian American social justice. a Black and Southeast Asian nonprofit organization that works with low- to no-income communities of color.

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Higher Ed Prepares to Celebrate the Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

You can never take a break from social justice work.” Graves, chief research, education and program officer at The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change. Graves is the chief research, education and program officer at The Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. Kelisha B.

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Scholars: Racial Backlash Robs White Students of U.S. History

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Elementary school teachers have been forced to empty their classroom libraries in response to a law requiring that all books be approved by a media specialist as free of “unsolicited theories that may lead to student indoctrination.” One is Vitale, author of the book The End of Policing — which Sen. Fifteen have passed.