Integration, Segregation, [De]Humanization
By Candice Bernd | Originally Published at Truthout July 2, 2014 10:12 | Photographic Credit; Yuri Arcurs (Shutterstock) Nicole Smith is terrified that her rapist, a former police officer, is up for parole soon and could be released from prison, possibly as early as September 2015. Smith's [...]
Americans, for decades now, have aspired to be colorblind, just not completely. Oh we long to see pretty pink crocuses and yellow daffodils flowers bloom in the spring. We want to walk through tall green grasses and bathe in the bright sun. We want to wear colorful [...]
A drop in suspension rates throughout L.A. Unified came after the Los Angeles Board of Education and superintendent called for fewer suspensions as concern grew nationwide that removing students from school imperils their academic achievement and disproportionately harms minorities. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times) By Teresa [...]
Photograph; Atlantic Author Ta-Nehisi Coates and Joy Reid walk and talk about the competition that we see in society and in our schools. By Betsy L. Angert | Originally Published at EmpathyEducates. May 29, 2014 You may have read or heard about The Atlantic article, The Case [...]
Getty Image By Margaret Kimberley | Originally Published at Black Agenda Report. May 28, 2014 When white teachers handcuff first graders, or white police throw Black tweens through glass windows, or shoot unarmed youths, it may be because of racially warped perceptions. “Black children are dehumanized to [...]
Photograph; Roland Park Fourth-graders do classwork in their homeroom at Roland Park Elementary/Middle School in Baltimore. The school is the most racially diverse school in the most segregated school district in the state. (Kim Hairston, Baltimore Sun /May 7, 2014) 60 Years After Brown v. [...]
Originally Published at Democracy Now! April 23, 2014 As the U.S. Supreme Court upholds a ban on affirmative action in Michigan and the country marks 60 years since the landmark decision of Brown v. Board of Education, we look at how segregation is still pervasive in U.S. [...]
By Paul L. Thonas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. April 2, 2014 children guessed (but only a few) and down they forgot as up they grew “[anyone lived in a pretty how town],” e.e. cummings In one of those early years of becoming and [...]
Study: NY Schools Most Segregated In America By Lilly Workneh | Originally Published at The Grio. March 26, 2014 at 12:30 PM Minorities are likely to become the majority population in America in less than three decades – and yet, with this soon-to-be expected reality, [...]
