Virtual Education and its Effect on the Achievement Gap

By Emma Bonack Beverly Taylor begins the fourth episode of the 411 Live’s fourth season addressing the effect of COVID on students’ lives. She invites Kelly Connor, a teacher, and Chantell Sain, a parent, who have found themselves in the middle of the shifting education system. Student Life from Teacher’s Perspective Kelly Connor, a Dallas, […]

Social Media, A Happy Hunting Ground For Sex Traffickers

By Lonnya Reasby Sex trafficking is modern-day slavery and involves the use of force, fraud, or coercion to obtain some type of labor or commercial sex act. It has been around for a long time. Humans have been subject to various forms of physical and sexual slavery. It is a total of 13,392 people trafficked […]

Anybody Can Be Trafficked

By KimberLee Emmerich Imagine you’re walking down the street to catch the next bus to work and you come across an older man with a young woman dressed in tight, almost revealing clothing, eyes trained on the ground as if she’s afraid to make eye contact. You notice cuts and bruises are covering her entire […]