The Latest Breaking News from BIPOC

From coffee jelly to snowflake crisp nougat, Monica Lo explores her heritage through culinary cannabis

Since the onset of the pandemic, many colleges and universities have reported record numbers of applications from mature students — adults who return to school on a part- or full-time basis while maintaining responsibilities like employment, family and other adult life responsibilities.

“I did not consider a career as a university professor or a position in academic leadership because I have never been taught by someone who looked like me!”

Cannabis prohibition has taken a devastating toll on marginalized communities across New York City. For almost 100 years, Black and Brown people have been targeted and persecuted for their consumption, or assumed consumption, of cannabis. The generational harm inflicted on whole swaths of BIPOC New Yorkers necessitates intervention on many…