Hannah-Jones, the investigative reporter who led the New York Times Magazine’s 1619 Project, delivered the Steven S. Goldberg and Jolley Bruce Christman Lecture in Education Law.
Student loan forgiveness was a hot topic in the Democratic presidential primary. Penn GSE Postdoctoral Scholar Jalil Mustaffa Bishop suggests that in addition to loan forgiveness, labor reform could lead to decreased student debt for African American students.
In interviews with The Washington Post and Vox, Ebony Elizabeth Thomas said a narrative sympathetic to the Confederacy and slavers spread misinformation in schooling.