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Viola Davis: ‘Poor People Are Invisible. I Know Because I Was That.’
Actress Viola Davis has always been forthright about the hardships she faced throughout her upbringing. Just last month, Davis shared...
Actress Viola Davis has always been forthright about the hardships she faced throughout her upbringing. Just last month, Davis shared...
After the Senate passed House Joint Resolution 42, which provides states with much more freedom in drug testing people who...
I trekked more than 1,000 miles across Mississippi with Mic‘s video team to talk to people about the digital divide in...
It's important to recognize the fact that Black families often end up stuck with a low income even when they...
It is perhaps America's greatest embarrassment. And our greatest indictment. That a country with such a bevy of resources and...
Fourth grade is considered a crucial benchmark for reading, because by that age kids are mostly done with formal reading...
Poverty has fallen for kids in White, Hispanic and Asian families in the last five years, but not for Black...
More than 150,000 U.S. families are homeless each year. The number has been going down, in part because of a...
Perhaps America's greatest paradox and greatest tragedy is how a country with our riches and resources has a permanent underclass;...
New research that shows poor children have smaller brains than affluent children has deepened the national debate about ways to...