Maya Penn: How A Second Grader Started A Successful Brand
As a second-grader, Maya Penn’s interest in art, saving the environment, and creating healthy clothing led her to start sewing clothing. Now 21, Maya Penn is the CEO of her own company. Maya not only specializes in sustainable, eco-friendly, vintage, and organic collections of vintage accessories, clothing, jewelry, and other items, but she is an […]
A Restaurant’s Discriminatory Dress Code: Racial Profiling Lesson
This viral video from an ABC news report is about a recent incident in which a group of Black diners was told they could only sit outside at a New Jersey restaurant because of their casual attire. But the Black diners saw White arrivals dressed similarly were allowed inside. The restaurant in question has been […]
Kits Cubed: Fun, Affordable STEM Lessons:
Originally published in 2021, and now updated with a September 2024 ABC TV news report in the sources list. The teen nonprofit founder is now a college student… In Oakland, California, teenager Ahmed Muhammad has been featured in many news stories, saluted as a CNN Hero, and profiled recently on GMA3. He was chosen not […]
Copyright Dispute With A Vampire Beauty Doctor
Kim Kardashian filed a federal lawsuit against an entrepreneurial Alabama doctor for using her image without permission on his website to promote his Vampire Facials practice. For entrepreneurs who are concerned about violating copyright or trademark rights, the costly horror story could have been avoided. Ask for permission, and do not use an image if […]
Justin Forsett: Startup Lessons From A Former NFL Football Player
Justin Forsett had a powerful motivation for choosing to become an entrepreneur, but as most beginners do, he made some early missteps. The first was major: Forsett chose a name for his hygiene product invention based on an inside joke with athletes. And no joke, the name—Shower Pill—likely gave other potential customers, non-athletes, pause. Forsett’s […]
The Crown Act: The Cost of Ethnic Hair
On January 1, 2020, California became the first state to pass an anti-discrimination hair law for schools and the workplace. The Crown Act (Create a Respectful and Open Workplace for Natural Hair). Kumasi Aaron, and Jobina Fortson, African American news anchors from San Francisco KGO ABC7, shared their own stories about having to straighten their […]
A Civil Action: Not A Typical Hollywood Film
A Civil Action is based on a true story and bestselling book. John Travolta stars in the 1998 film playing attorney Jan Schlichtman. Although the film is about the environmental poisoning of a small town’s water supply, the film is considered by many in the legal profession to be a realistic look at the economics […]
Lois Beardslee: Why a Children’s Game Led a Veteran Teacher to Leave the Profession
H_NGM_N: What one says, or doesn’t say, to white educators is an informative and unforgettable essay by award-winning, author, illustrator, and veteran teacher Lois Beardslee. Beardslee describes her experience as a Native American teacher while navigating a profession that discriminated against her, sometimes with violence. And she provides insights into the pitfalls of teaching as […]
PBS: Two African American High-School Students Talk About Race
Two Students’ Brief But Spectacular Takes on Race and Being Underestimated PBS News Hour, PBS.org, January 28, 2021. Video, 3:48 min. Filmed shortly before the pandemic with two high-school students in Georgia, Audrey McNeal, and Shaylon Walker, now in their first year of college. The pair recount troubling and traumatic experiences. From stereotyping to a […]
Benjamin Kagan: Covid Vaccine Inspired A Teen To Volunteer His Skills
14-year old Benjamin Kagan’s know-how is underscored in the news report link below. It gives an inside glimpse of his skillset beyond computers. While other articles feature teens who help seniors track down vaccine appointments with their computers, such as Vaccine Hunters, Kagan offers more. Database creation is not a skill many people can do […]