Journey for Justice: “Our Children are Not Collateral Damage!” [Video]
Journey for Justice 2: Our Children are not Collateral Damage! from Rachel Dickson on Vimeo. Journey for Justice: "Our Children are Not Collateral Damage!" Video" On January 29th 2013, the Department of Education, Civil Rights Division held a Hearing on School Closures, Turnarounds, Phase-Outs and Co-Locations. [...]
Installment #3 “Did You Know Yo’ Mama was White?”
Using New Interracial Family Evidence to Trouble Jim Crow and Me (and You)Preparing to share and receive sensitive family history By Dr. Sherick Hughes | Originally Published at History and Family Blog Thursday, May 27, 2013 | Special thanks to the Author Dr. Sherick Hughes, and [...]
My Chicago Board of Ed Statement
Photograph; Newly appointed board member, XX, is introduce at the Chicago Board of Education meeting Wednesday June 26, 2013. | Jessica Koscielniak ~ Chicago Sun-Times My name is Victoria Benson, I’m the Chairperson of the LSC at Portage Park Elementary School. I’m here to advise you that [...]
American Revolutionary: ‘The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs’
‘Solutionaries are today’s Revolutionaries ~ Grace Lee Boggs Originally Published at Conversations That You Will Never finish October 26, 2013 The Evolution Never Ends and is Now Captured on Film The first time I even heard the word Solutionary [...]
Reclaim the Conversation on Education
Originally Published by Edu4. June 20, 2013 On May 4, about 200 scholars, teachers, administrators, parents, students, and other concerned citizens gathered together in New York City to resist the test-driven corporate education “reforms” and reclaim the conversation on education (program attached). For the next couple of [...]
The Unfinished March: An Overview
REPORT Race and Ethnicity By Algernon Austin, Originally Published at The Economic Policy Institute, June 18, 2013 The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous “I Have a Dream” speech at the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Millions of Americans know that [...]
Installment 2: “I Don’t Think That’s My Daddy:”
Unlearning Another Lie that Jim Crow Taught By Dr. Sherick Hughes | Originally Published at History and Family Blog Saturday, June 1, 2013 | Special thanks to the Author Dr. Sherick Hughes, and the creator of History and Family Blog, Christine E. Sleeter, PhD. Preparing to [...]
The Economic Policy Institute Announces the Unfinished March
The March on Washington was supposed to be about justice and economic equality for black Americans. The second part of that mission is still far from accomplished. If you frequently ask yourself what happened to President Johnson's and indeed the nation's War on Poverty, then you might [...]