Expand the School to Prison Pipeline Conversation to Include Black Girls
By Monique Morris | Originally Published at Open Society. October 5, 2012 |
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Rodney King Is Dead, but Little Else Has Changed Since the Riots That Bore His Name GalleryRodney King Is Dead, but Little Else Has Changed Since the Riots That Bore His Name
Civil and Human Rights, Democracy, Editorial, Equality/Equity, Federal/State/Local Regulations, Mass Incarceration, Racial Socioeconomic Relations, Safety/Violence, Tolerance/Humanization
Rodney King Is Dead, but Little Else Has Changed Since the Riots That Bore His Name
On April 29, 1992, at the Ventura County courthouse in Simi Valley, home of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, a jury of ten whites, one Asian and one Latino delivered not guilty verdicts in all assault charges but one against four Los Angeles (LA) police [...]
Why Education Inequality Persists — and How To Fix It
If it takes a village to raise a child, the same village must share accountability when many children are educationally abandoned. In New York City, the nation’s largest school system, on average student outcomes and their opportunity to learn are more determined by the neighborhood [...]
“The Struggle for Racial Integration is Neither Bygone Nor Exclusively Southern”
How we remember the history of school segregation can be a mystery. What we do and have done to change our history – that is the greater mystery. By Christopher Bonastia| Originally Published at Huffington Post Black Voices. January 11, 2012 When I tell people here in [...]
Is Segregation The New School Choice
By Jeff Bryant | Originally Published at Our Future. January 6, 2012 I remember the day that the poor kids showed up at our school. It was in 1964. Classes had already started, and I was in second grade, surrounded by my familiar friends from my mostly [...]
Progress and the Power of a Plan
Inherent within each of us is conflict. Generally speaking, we think growth is good. Progress is a sign of achievement. As George Bernard Shaw so aptly articulated, “Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” Indeed, politically, at one time [...]
Schools and the New Jim Crow – An Interview with Michelle Alexander
Alexander poses a thought-provoking and insightful thesis: Mass incarceration, justified and organized around the war on drugs, has become the new face of racial discrimination in the United States. Since 1970, the number of people behind bars in this country has increased 600 percent. What [...]
Goodbye, Freedom
Eddie Glaude, Jr., Ph.D. | Originally Published at Huffington Post. Black Voices. August 4, 2011 07:54 AM ET | Updated October 4, 2011 Black America is in crisis. In a recent study, the National Urban League reported that almost all the economic gains made by African Americans [...]
8 Reasons Young Americans Don’t Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance
Whether you believe in resistance, activism, or just the choice to be involved and question, it is clear that youth involvement has changed over recent decades. Frequently, in schools today young Americans are required to "engage," to build a résumé, to improve their skills for a chosen [...]