Articles

  • 1 week ago | williquinn.medium.com | Quintessa Williams

    History + JusticeNearly two centuries after the university commissioned racist scientific images of Renty and Delia, their portraits are finally being returned where they belong. After nearly two centuries and a legal battle years in the making, images of enslaved ancestors from South Carolina are finally coming home. On May 28th, Harvard University agreed to release the 1850 daguerreotypes of Renty and Delia Taylor — a father and daughter forced to pose naked for a racist pseudoscientific study.

  • 1 week ago | dallasweekly.com | Quintessa Williams

    Overview: The Trump administration has cut $1 billion in federal funding for school-based mental health programs, which was intended to help schools address the growing youth mental health crisis. Black students are already at risk of significant psychological harm, including suicide, due to limited access to mental health services and exposure to racial discrimination and disproportionate rates of school-based discipline.

  • 1 week ago | wordinblack.com | Quintessa Williams

    Research shows that suicide rates among Black youth have climbed by nearly 37% over the past five years, with Black teens now reporting higher attempt rates than their white and Hispanic peers. At the same time, Black and Native American students are 1.3 times more likely than white students to attend schools with a police officer — but no school mental health counselor.

  • 1 week ago | amsterdamnews.com | Quintessa Williams

    In the spring of 2020, a video of George Floyd being murdered by a Minneapolis police officer went viral. And then — something unprecedented happened: millions filled the streets, marching and demanding the defunding of police, community-centered care, and an acknowledgement that Black lives truly matter — not just on the streets, but in classrooms and school hallways. School districts responded, too.

  • 1 week ago | theatlantavoice.com | Quintessa Williams

    In the classic sci-fi movie “Minority Report,” Tom Cruise plays a cop whose “Precrime” unit uses surveillance and behavior patterns to arrest murderers before they kill. Set in the future, the movie raised tough questions about privacy, due process, and how predicting criminal behavior can destroy innocent lives. But what once seemed like an action fantasy is now creeping into American classrooms.