Jews ‘must be included’ in ethnic studies curriculum, says state schools chief at press conference
California State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond said during a press conference on Wednesday morning that Jewish Americans “must be included” in a controversial ethnic studies curriculum for high school.
Music's Power: Ethiopian Rapper Teddy Neguse Challenges Police Brutality Through Rap Music
“Music is the weapon of the future”
Jews Of Color: ‘We Don’t Feel Comfortable In The Synagogue’
New surveys shed light on overlooked segments.
A New Black-Jewish Caucus Aims For Solidarity — But Will Israel Get In The Way?
Congress has hundreds of caucuses, collections of politicians with common interests in everything under the sun –- the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, the Medicare for All Caucus, the Chicken Caucus. On Monday, a new, bipartisan caucus was announced, one that hopes to rebuild a historic alliance that has lately seen some tensions: the Congressional Caucus on Black-Jewish Relations.
How My Hispanic-Filipino and Jewish Identities Come Together through Teaching
As someone who is half-Filipino and half-Hispanic and grew up in a diverse Dallas, TX, neighborhood, I never gave much thought to the politics of skin color and how that affected me – at least not until I entered the Jewish community.
A Graphic Novel That Answers a Child’s Question About Being Biracial
For a person of color in America, the term person of color can be both useful and divisive, at once a form of solidarity and a badge of alienation. There’s a flattening effect, too: A multitude of ethnicities and cultures, with their own color-coded nuances, get crammed into the initials P.O.C. Among its many virtues, Mira Jacob’s graphic memoir, GOOD TALK (One World, $30), helps us think through this term with grace and disarming wit.
What It’s Like Raising a Jewish-Indian Kid in Trump’s America
Something about [the election] really put a sort of clarifying lens on which conversations I needed to amplify and which ones were haunting me. I knew I had to figure out a way to talk about the formation of my identity, because I understood [my son’s] was forming right in that moment. There were circles to what he was going through and to what I had gone through, and I had never seen them talked about in America.
The Evolving Role of Race in Children’s Lit, From ‘Harry Potter’ to ‘The Hate U Give’
By age 22, I had not read a popular fantasy with a character that looked like me. There wasn't the sea of materials that there were for my white friends.
Israel has a racism problem. Here are 3 ways to help fix it.
The author offers her solutions as to how Israel could combat its internal oppression of Ethiopian Jews
Let's Talk About Race
In this acclaimed book, the author of the Newbery Honor Book To Be a Slave shares his own story as he explores what makes each of us special.