By Connie L. Schaffer, Professor of Teacher Education, University of Nebraska Omaha
Martha Graham Viator, Associate Professor Emeritus of Education, Rowan University
Meg White, Professor of Education, Stockton University
On Nov. 15, 1960, four Black first graders desegregated New Orleans schools. One of them was Tessie Prevost, who died in July 2024 with the promises of the post-Brown era still unfulfilled.
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By Matthew Melia, Senior Lecturer and Course leader of the Humanities Foundation Degree, Kingston University
There are a couple of Trump jokes and a reference to the current Israel-Gaza conflict. But the production fails to commit fully to any incisive or urgent critique of the current global crises.
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By Konstantinos Dimopoulos, Reader in Particle Cosmology, Lancaster University
How did everything begin? It’s a question that humans have pondered for thousands of years. Over the last century or so, science has homed in on an answer: the Big Bang.
This describes how the Universe was born in a cataclysmic explosion almost 14 billion years ago. In a tiny fraction of a second, the observable universe grew by the equivalent of a bacterium expanding to the size of the Milky…
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By David Hastings Dunn, Professor of International Politics in the Department of Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham
According to the United Nations 2024 is “the biggest election year in human history” with half of the world’s population – some 3.7 billion people in 72 countries – able to vote. Yet some elections are more consequential than others which is why the world is watching as the US goes to the polls.
The US is the world’s largest…
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By Selena Wisnom, Lecturer in the Heritage of the Middle East, University of Leicester
Using a sheep’s liver to predict the outcome of the US election makes a serious point about how humans have coped with uncertainty throughout history.
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By Ruth Barton, Professor in Film Studies, Trinity College Dublin
In 2021, Ireland’s then Taoiseach (prime minister), Enda Kenny, delivered a formal apology to the survivors of the Magdalene laundries. The laundries were religious institutions where unmarried mothers and other “fallen” women were forced into slave labour.
“It struck me,” he said, “that for generations Ireland had created a particular portrait of itself as a good living God-fearing nation. Through this and other reports we know this flattering self-portrait to be fictitious…
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By Tinashe Mushakavanhu, Research Associate, University of Oxford
African book publishing is in a rare moment of transformation, according to a new report. It’s an industry that has historically survived at the mercy of multinational publishing houses and donor funding. These arrangements, subject to the dictates of capitalism or aid, have not been sustainable.
A newly published British Council study concludes that a new generation of African readers and writers has…
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By Abiodun Egbetokun, Senior lecturer, Business Management, De Montfort University
Adedayo Olofinyehun, Researcher, National Centre for Technology Management (NACETEM)
Youth unemployment has been a problem in Nigeria for decades. This is why policymakers are increasingly turning to entrepreneurship education as a solution. It is hoped that entrepreneurship will reduce reliance on formal jobs and create more opportunities for self-employment.
The unemployment rate stood…
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By Christopher Isike, Director, African Centre for the Study of the United States, University of Pretoria
Samuel Oyewole, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria
In his first year in office, US president Joe Biden committed to resetting US-Africa relations based on a doctrine of equal partnership.
He sent his secretary of state, Antony Blinken, to Kenya, Côte d'Ivoire and Nigeria. The visit was used to outline the administration’s policy outlook towards Africa. It laid the ground for the official US-Africa…
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By Ian Maidment, Professor in Clinical Pharmacy, Aston University
There is a lot of outrage that the new Alzheimer’s drug donanemab is being refused on the NHS. But there are good reasons for Nice’s decision.
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