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Integration, Segregation, [De]Humanization

West Florissant is America’s Jericho Road

One of the most famous parables in the Christian Bible is the story of the Good Samaritan. It has been told and retold in many different ways—many different times. Likely the most effective use of this story told by Jesus of Nazareth, in the modern [...]

West Florissant is America’s Jericho Road2016-11-29T17:37:45-05:00

A Mother’s White Privilege

By Elizabeth Broadbent | Originally Published at Manic Pixie Dream Mama. August 17, 2014 What if my son was black? How would you see this picture? As the ongoing events in Ferguson, Missouri show us, America’s racial tensions didn’t disappear when George Wallace backed down [...]

A Mother’s White Privilege2016-11-29T17:37:45-05:00

Like Dred Scott, Michael Brown Was Denied His Right to Live—and to Live as an American

By Blair L.M. Kelley | Originally Published at The Root. August 14, 2014 6:32 PM | Photograph; Michael Brown | Facebook In Dred Scott’s America—in the same part of Missouri where Brown was killed—black Americans were denied rights and their future. That’s not far off from what [...]

Like Dred Scott, Michael Brown Was Denied His Right to Live—and to Live as an American2016-11-29T17:37:45-05:00

I Don’t Know How to Talk to White People About Ferguson

You might want to grab a hankie before you read. If you ever wondered whether empathy educates, sit back, peruse, and breathe. Photograph; Ali Barthwell Ali Barthwell | Originally Published at xoJane. August 14, 2014 at 12:30PM I don’t know how to tell people that I’d rather [...]

I Don’t Know How to Talk to White People About Ferguson2016-11-29T17:37:46-05:00

A Brief History of Black Folks and Sidewalks

When your father last visited, he took you past the front yard at your grandparents’ house and sat beside you on a square of sidewalk. I had supplied the chalk — $0.75 on sale in the checkout line at a supermarket — but stayed at [...]

A Brief History of Black Folks and Sidewalks2016-11-29T17:37:46-05:00

Michael Brown and The Education of Our Black Men

Photograph; Michael Brown. Hershel Johnson, a friend of Brown’s since middle school remembers. “He said he wasn’t going to end up like some people on the streets. He was going to get an education. He was going to make his life a whole a lot better.” By [...]

Michael Brown and The Education of Our Black Men2016-11-29T17:37:46-05:00

When the Whole Classroom Is White—Except for the Professor

By Liana Silva-Ford | Originally Chronicle Vitae. August 12, 2014 In May the Center for American Progress released a report on diversity in K-12 classrooms across the United States. According to the study, the racial and ethnic makeup of public schools just isn’t reflected in the teachers [...]

When the Whole Classroom Is White—Except for the Professor2016-11-29T17:37:46-05:00

What Are We Doing To Our Children? #IfTheyGunnedMeDown #MichaelBrown

What are we doing to our children? Why might it be that white teens are free to plan for proms, High School graduation, the anticipation that comes when you go off to college, while our Black babies ponder, "If the cops gun me down, which image would [...]

What Are We Doing To Our Children? #IfTheyGunnedMeDown #MichaelBrown2016-11-29T17:37:46-05:00

This Is Why We’re Mad About the Shooting of Mike Brown

Lesley McSpadden, left, is comforted by her husband, Louis Head, after her 18-year-old son, Michael Brown, was shot and killed by police in the middle of the street in Ferguson, Mo., near St. Louis on Saturday, Aug. 9, 2014. A spokesman with the St. Louis County Police [...]

This Is Why We’re Mad About the Shooting of Mike Brown2016-11-29T17:37:47-05:00
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