Over the past year—a year in which we saw some of the largest uprisings in support of racial justice in many years as well as a pandemic that disproportionately impacted Black Americans—many Americans have undergone a reckoning on systemic racism…

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Olivia Samimy is a senior at Roanoke College and an intern with Generation Progress, a national youth advocacy and education organization housed within the Center for American Progress.

It’s officially August, which means that students and teachers across the country are starting to head back to school—but this school year will likely look very different than years past. On this week’s Generation Progress takeover of the Leslie Marshall…

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