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The word inclusion has been part of academia and the business world for several years now. But what does inclusion look like for differently-abled individuals? We have many gifts and talents to offer to the world and society. However, society’s ignorance often squelches those gifts and talents. Sure, there are laws prohibiting the discrimination of differently-abled individuals, such as the...
An alarming percentage of the country still falls on the wrong side of the digital divide.
Much has been said about the internet and social platforms becoming breeding grounds for spreading misinformation and sowing division, but what about when the internet becomes the source of division?
The “digital divide” is not a new concept, but per the most recent Broadband Deployment...
Creating more diverse, inclusive and accountable organizations requires intimate, conscious, individual action.
There have been too many headlines about mass shootings, death counts and hate crimes with devastating images of people running for cover. I know I am not alone in the compulsion to want to turn them off, if only for a moment… to get my children to school, organize myself, my...
There is no cause that is more essential to journalism—and to democracy—than the free flow of facts. In creating the First Amendment, the founding fathers understood that the choices citizens make—who to vote for, which policies to support or oppose—can only be as good as the information on which the decisions are based.
Enter the News Literacy Project (NLP) newslit.org., a national...
When was the last time you questioned how work fits into your life? Or whether you should work at all?
On the social networking site Reddit, there is a forum (a subreddit) with 2.2 million members called r/Antiwork where users question the very nature of work as we know it. On this forum, members post stories about work conditions that make them wish they could quit their jobs or have...
Across the nation, school administrators are silencing student journalists. In Indiana, a principal prevented a high school student journalist from covering a story about a student who was convicted of sexual assault. The principal told her that the topic was “too sensitive for the students to tackle.” In Nebraska, school administrators completely shut down a school’s newspaper after student...