Maria Tope Akinyele Ph.D. serves as the Assistant Director of Strategy and Innovation at the Danielson Group. She is also the founder Agiri Learning Consultants, a firm that has helped hundreds of school leaders and organizations embrace, strategize, and enact positive changes in their pursuits towards cultural responsiveness, racial equity, justice, diversity, and inclusion. Dr.
When two nations are in a race and one shuts its eyes and pretends that no competition is taking place, the nation that closes its eyes loses. We don’t want that to happen to the USA. But it is happening. We all know that we are in a competition with China for world leadership. But
Multiple Emmy Award-winners Uzo Aduba (In Treatment, Orange is the New Black) and Ron Cephas Jones (This Is Us) have been cast in Second Stage Theater’s upcoming Broadway production of Lynn Nottage’s new play Clyde’s, along with Reza Salazar (Sweat) and Kara Young (Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven). Second Stage announced the casting today,
World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus R speaks at a daily briefing in Geneva, Switzerland. Chen Junxia | Xinhua News Agency | Getty Images People who are fully vaccinated against Covid-19 are still getting infected with the delta variant, but global health officials said the shots have protected most people from getting severely sick
The ending of most legal coronavirus restrictions in England next week “should not be taken as an invitation by everybody simply to have a great jubilee and freedom from any kind of caution or restraint”, the prime minister has said. Speaking at a Downing Street news conference, Boris Johnson said it is “absolutely vital that
British billionaire Richard Branson on Sunday soared more than 50 miles above the New Mexico desert aboard his Virgin Galactic rocket plane and safely returned in the vehicle’s first fully crewed test flight to space, a symbolic milestone for a venture he started 17 years ago. Branson, one of six Virgin Galactic employees strapped in
In this article TSLA Elon Musk, Founder and Chief Engineer of SpaceX, speaks during the Satellite 2020 Conference in Washington, DC, United States on March 9, 2020. Yasin Ozturk | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images WILMINGTON, DEL. — Tesla CEO Elon Musk defended his role in the company’s $2.6 billion acquisition of SolarCity in court
Organisers of the world’s biggest film festival in Cannes have downplayed rumours there is a COVID-19 outbreak at the event, after James Bond star Lea Seydoux reportedly tested positive ahead of her appearance. The event, which began on 6 July on the French Riviera, has so far welcomed stars such as Adam Driver and Matt
Showtime has picked up to series I Love This For You, Vanessa Bayer’s half-hour comedy pilot, written by and starring Bayer. Co-created and executive produced by Bayer and Jeremy Beiler (Saturday Night Live), I Love This for You is a grounded comedy in which Bayer plays a character, inspired by her own past, who overcame
EXCLUSIVE: Emmy-Award winning producer and director Daniel Minahan and Oscar winning producer Peter Spears are teaming with Ley Line Entertainment to develop the feature film On Swift Horses based on the Shannon Pufahl novel of the same name. On Swift Horses follows Muriel and her husband Lee who are beginning a bright new life when he returns from the Korean
News Sparks Announce 2022 North American Tour Ron and Russell Mael are scheduled to play shows next February, March, and April By Quinn Moreland July 12, 2021 Facebook Twitter Sparks’ Ron and Russell Mael, July 2021 (JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP via Getty Images) Facebook Twitter Sparks have announced a North American tour set for 2022. The dates
Starting today, the New York Public Library will be giving away free summer book kits tailored to kids and teens. The kits will include books (for keeping, rather than borrowing), activity guides, bookmarks, and more. You can visit your local NYPL branch in order to claim a summer book kit. Availability is limited to one
As I wandered through central London yesterday, I saw people of all colours and creeds from across the country singing “ENGERLAND! ENGERLAND!” Donning my England shirt, I felt pride – I’d never felt more English. After a time of such division and hostility in British society, after a time of darkness during the pandemic, it
SINGAPORE — The next global pandemic could happen at any time and the world must start preparing for it now, said Singapore’s Senior Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam. “We don’t have the luxury of waiting for Covid to be over before we start preparing for the next pandemic, because the next pandemic can come any time,” Tharman
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said “caution is absolutely vital” as he prepares to address the nation on Monday to announce whether the final stage of releasing coronavirus restrictions can go ahead. The prime minister is expected to confirm that England can move to step four of the government’s roadmap out of lockdown, but to
Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson are competing fiercely to outwit each other and capture the huge commercial space tourism market. And their fellow billionaire Elon Musk appears to be siding with the British entrepreneur and his Virgin Galactic venture. Musk, the SpaceX CEO who aims to colonise Mars someday and make humans a multi-planetary species, seems to have
In this article AAPL Second-generation Apple AirPods with wireless charging indicator Todd Haselton | CNBC When AirPods were first released in 2016, they were a marvel of miniaturization. To ditch cords and go wireless, Apple packed several chips, microphones and speakers into each headphone, which weigh about 4 grams. Without a cord, the earbud gets
England have been hailed as heroes who should be “so proud” of themselves for their efforts in reaching their first major final in more than half a century. In a nail-biting final of the Euros, the Three Lions faced an agonising defeat in a penalty shootout at Wembley. Prince William, who was at the match
NBC penned in their special series debut after the Tokyo Olympics with Family Game Fight!, hosted by Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard. The reality game show series is set to premiere Sunday, August 8 at 10:30 PM ET, immediately after the Olympics Closing Ceremony. There will be a time-period premiere with an all-new episode on
Questlove’s Summer of Soul (…Or When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised) will hit a cumulative $1.4 million rising to an estimated $1.47 million Monday with a $375,000 second-week gross in 752 theaters. The best performing documentary so far this year “may possibly get to $2 million, that’s our goal,” said Searchlight Pictures head of