After the 2020 police killing of George Floyd, Eric J. Barron joined higher education leaders nationwide in pledging solidarity with protesters seeking racial justice. “It is past time for change,” the president of Pennsylvania State University said. But like his peers elsewhere, Barron faced intense pressure to take actions that would outlast the rhetoric. So, that December, he touted a Penn State commission’s proposal to establish a scholarly initiative dedicated to anti-racism.

May 1, 2018 The 2017 hurricane season was unlike any other. First came Hurricane Harvey, followed a little more than two weeks later by Hurricane Irma. The storms swept through multiple states and caused an estimated $175 billion in damages. Then came Maria, which damaged or destroyed more than a third of homes on Puerto Rico and crippled the island’s aging power grid. “I remember looking at people, and I knew that there was going to be nothing when they went outside — no electricity, no water,” said Carmen Yulin Cruz, the mayor of San Juan, in an interview for the FRONTLINE/NPR investigation Blackout in Puerto Rico.

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An indigenous people who lived in Cuba at the time of the Spanish discovery and who eventually perished by the turn of the 17th century, either at the hands of the Spanish, from European illnesses or by suicide. Modern scholars dispute the extent of indigenous contribution to Cuban music, however most agree that the Taino Arawak and other native groups were responsible for the presence of the maracas and the güiro, which, 500 years ago were among the musical centerpieces of areito music, and which today provide the distinctive dry rattling and scraping percussion that characterizes many ensembles.

Explore More Public school teams in New York will soon be barred from calling themselves names like the Warriors, Chiefs, Redmen or Braves following a Tuesday ruling by Albany education honchos. The Board of Regents, which presides over the state’s education department, voted to phase out Native American-related nicknames as part of a politically correct national effort to scrub racially insensitive imagery from sports teams. Nearly 60 school districts will be required to “eliminate” all use of Indigenous-related mascots and imagery by the end of the 2024-2025 school year, or risk losing state aide, board members unanimously ruled.