Giving Tuesday: Three Things in Our Tiny Pitch
Headway isn’t a traditional fundraising operation. We don’t do events, telethons, create kits or recipe books, or attack our contact list with envelopes of personalized address labels and desk calendars. Nothing against those who do: I have about three 2025 wall calendars in the house and shed right now. (Four? Hmmm.) But we’re kinda small, […]
Project 2025 in the People’s House? Here’s Some Context
As an organization committed to facilitating healthy interactions, and more specifically diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging and accessibility, it is essential we speak out about Project 2025. The roadmap for the federal government during the president-elect’s second term will further erode the civil rights U.S. Americans have fought to earn, and enjoyed and expanded on for […]
What’s happening in DEIB news: September
Image credit: Wikimedia Commons Since the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action at universities, some companies, schools & organizations are changing policies in response — out of fear & as a result of threats. That’s ironic because DEI was first introduced to protect companies from liability and discrimination lawsuits. If there’s a bright side, it’s […]
Ernesto Aguilar: Rethinking Latino Voter Coverage (Guest Post)
Ernesto Aguilar is an experienced public media leader specializing in radio programming, audience engagement and diversity, equity & inclusion (DEI) initiatives. He currently serves as Executive Director of Radio Programming and DEI at KQED, among the most-listened-to public radio stations in the country. He is a passionate advocate for public media’s role in reflecting underrepresented […]
What Are We Actually Going to Do?
Nikole Hannah-Jones, the Pulitzer Prize-winning, MacArthur Genius behind The 1619 Project, has been on tour celebrating the paperback release of the book. She held a truth-telling session with Ida’s Bookshop in Collingswood, NJ to remind us and enlighten us of the realities of the original sin of the United States. At one point, bookstore owner […]
Send Us Your Questions: Things That Make You Go Hmmm…
Send us your videos, your screenshots, photos or sound bites! Have you seen something you think may be racist, sexist, ageist, transphobic, ableist or problematic in any way? Send it to us! If you received an email or a letter, or you witnessed or were the target of a microaggression, a bigoted joke or […]
Misidentifying Black People
What I learned: We have to stop pretending it’s easy to tell people apart if they belong to a race that is not our own.
Why are so many journalists of color leaving the profession?
In September, Sam Sanders tweeted out a list of public radio hosts from marginalized communities who have left NPR in recent months: Lourdes Garcia Navarro, Shereen Marisol Meraji, Shankar Vedantam, Maria Hinojosa, Maddie Sofia, and Joshua Johnson.
