All Photographs represent aspects within the civil rights complaint. Tuesday, December 17, 2013. (Photo by Ted Jackson, Nola.com | The Times-Picayune) What do we do when an ugly reality comes face-to-face with the pretty picture fame and fortune flaunted? Do we run? Do we hide? Do we [...]
New York State has received their just reward, the highest dishonor. The schools statewide are known to engage in "double segregation." Students are increasingly isolated not only by race, but also by income. A Black or Latino student in New York State likely attends a school with [...]
Photograph; Your neighborhood is being gentrified if there is a coffeehouse with a mustached-indie-sustainable-farmer-hipster-barista who's very serious... | Andrew Burton/Getty Images Too many claim white people are at risk in communities of color. Really, it's those communities that are threatened By Daniel José Older | Originally Published [...]
Photograph By Todd Heisler/The New York Times, via Redux By Bonnie Bertram | Originally Published at The Daily Beast. April 8, 2014 When a phrase like ‘The Knockout Game,’ ‘Crack Babies,’ or ‘Super Predators’ is dubbed in the media, the story takes on a life [...]
Which 'Culture' Will We Adopt? Inmates at the Caddo Juvenile Detention Center in Shreveport, La., in 2010.Val Horvath/The Times/AP By Dana Goldstein | Originally Published at AlterNet. April 7, 2014 Destiny was in eighth grade when, in the middle of an altercation with another student, she grabbed [...]
By K. Abel | Originally Published at The Atlanta Black Star. April 7, 2014 The United States of America has been labeled the melting pot of the Western world by branding itself as a haven for all people seeking success and freedom. Despite a brutal history of [...]
Graphic Credit; AngertAesthetics By Melody Petersen | Originally Published at The Orange County Register. April 5, 2014 Updated April 7, 2014 Every day, thousands of Orange County students log in to their school-assigned Google accounts to work on lessons and send emails to teachers and classmates. What [...]
Is public education doomed to destruction? Has it already been done in? Everyone has an opinion. The question is will the Vergara v. California court decision permanently define what might be? Will education equity be set free? Stanford Professor Linda Darling-Hammond discusses the case and examines the [...]
Photograph; The American Dream by Margaret Bourke-White By Philip Bump | Originally Published at The Wire. April 1, 2014 Americans don't want to imagine that our racist history is actually an ongoing, racist reality. We like to look at racism as a thing that has gotten better [...]
