Author: UNC Charlotte

Netflix’s children’s programming library continues to grow, and its latest is one of its best original offerings yet – Emily’s Wonder Lab, a TV series hosted by engineer, space expert and Emmy-nominated TV science host Emily Calandrelli. The new show’s first season of 10 episodes is now available to stream in its entirety, and each…

CUNY City College is one of the colleges with a good return on investment. Gabriela Bhaskar/Reuters Some colleges have students already moving into residential buildings as the new semester approaches, as The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill did before switching to a remote model.Colleges have to decide whether they will reopen or teach…

Jerry Falwell Jr., a close ally of President Trump and one of the most prominent evangelical leaders in the country, has weathered one controversy after another in recent years. But in the community that has been at the center of the religious empire he and his father have presided over for decades, he finally pushed…

A teachers’ strike closes down a school district in Arizona that was set to begin classes on Monday. A school district outside Phoenix has canceled its plans to reopen schools next week after teachers staged a “sick out” in protest. “We have received a high volume of staff absences for Monday citing health and safety…

Published Aug. 10, 2020Updated Aug. 11, 2020No one, it is safe to assume, told J.F.K. he was too ambitious.In 1956, at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, he campaigned aggressively to be vice president, said Keneshia Grant, an associate professor of political science at Howard University. His father, she noted, had even offered to pay…

Published Aug. 12, 2020Updated Aug. 13, 2020Carroll Hardy, a reserve outfielder for the Boston Red Sox, was on the visitors’ bench in Baltimore late in the 1960 season when Ted Williams, the team’s megastar, fouled a pitch off his right foot during his first at-bat against the Orioles. Hobbled, he left the field.Hardy was told…

15th Amendment, however ineffectual it became through the vise created by racist Jim Crow era policies.Even with the rift over the 15th Amendment, Douglass was unwavering in his support of women’s right to vote though his sense of timing and strategy shifted. “Her right to be and to do is as full, complete and perfect…

Aug. 5, 2020ImageFor the first time in the U.C. system’s history, Chicano or Latino students made up the greatest share of Californians admitted to the freshman class.Credit…Jeff Chiu/Associated PressGood morning.This year, as the University of California faces rising calls on a number of fronts to operate more equitably, it achieved a milestone: For the first…

U.S.|Falwell Taking Leave From Liberty University Amid Photo UproarAug. 7, 2020Jerry Falwell Jr., one of President Trump’s most prominent and controversial evangelical supporters, will take an indefinite leave of absence from his role as president and chancellor of Liberty University, the board of trustees announced on Friday.The news comes days after Mr. Falwell posted, and…

Published Aug. 2, 2020Updated Aug. 7, 2020When Liz Herring arrived at George Washington University as a freshman in 1966, she entered a capital city in the throes of the civil rights movement. Just three years after a quarter-million people had crowded the National Mall to hear the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Congress was…