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Cat Won, Journal B Photography Good Morning. All nonprofits are looking for that big, transformative gift that can help expand their reach and put them on stable financial footing for years to come. But what happens when it turns out that the sources of such gifts have some unsavory allegation lodged against them?  Ben Gose explores that thorny tangle with a look at how some of America’s biggest donors create an ethical minefield for charities they support. His story is part of the Chronicle’s annual Philanthropy 50 special report on America’s biggest donors. Case in point: Artists a...

The time for a federal racial equity stimulus package is now OPINION: Out of the urgent need to decouple America’s vision of opportunity from historic racism and oppression, this moment calls for Congress to advance a multi-year federal racial equity stimulus package John H. Jackson (Photo by Zach Gibson/Getty Images) The story of America is the power of common people coming together around a vision of opportunity, democracy, and a better way of life for generations to come. However, from our earliest beginnings, that vision was executed with instruments of brutal and legalized...

Through the gaps with steve perry in just a moment. first, let's dissect the problem. josh levs has been digging into the numbers for us. what have you found? >> the numbers are amazing. this is a report from the schott foundation which looks at billing equity in our nation's schools and challenging the presumptions and looking at rough statistics. i want to go back to the beginning here. i don't think i can do this myself but let's look at the screens here. i want to break down the numbers because they are stunning. what you see here is they're talking about a few states where they say there'...