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, [...]
Kiese Laymon, Author of 'Long Division,' Speaks Up for Black Boys and Girls By Jarvis DeBerry | Originally Published at The Times-Picayune. March 25, 2014 at 4:57 PM, updated March 25, 2014 at 4:58 PM [See and Hear Interview Below] When Kiese Laymon, a novelist and essayist [...]
Photograph by Lacy Atkins By Griff519 also known as Ramon | Originally Published at Cloaking Inequality. March 24, 2014 Are some charters’ practices new forms of colonial hegemony? When examining current discipline policies and aligned behavioral norms within charter school spaces, postcolonial theory is useful because of [...]
By Leo Davis | Originally Published at Atlanta Black Star. March 24, 2014 Misreported Statistics Used to Reinforce Black Men as Violent One statistic commonly misused by a misleading media is: 49% of murder victims are black men. 93% of those are killed by other blacks. However, [...]
(AP Photo/ Jose F. Moreno) By Steven Hsieh | Originally Published at The Nation. March 21, 2014 Comprehensive data released Friday by the US Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights offers a striking glance at the extent of racial inequality plaguing the nation’s education system. Analysts [...]
A student performed a monologue in March in which he describes how he was misidentified as the help at a cocktail party he attended in the play, "I, Too, Am Harvard," in Cambridge, Mass. Credit; Gretchen Ertl for The New York Times By Tanzina Vega | Originally [...]
By Philip Bump | Originally Published at The Wire. March 10, 2014 8:04PM ET Asked to identify the age of a young boy that committed a felony, participants in a study routinely overestimated the age of black children far more than they did white kids. Worse: Cops [...]
Photograph; A report released today by New Detroit showed there are significant racial gaps in education and income across metro Detroit, with Latinos and African Americans lagging behind whites and Asian Americans. / January photo by Kimberly P. Mitchell/Detroit Free While the study reveals the situation is [...]
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback listens to kindergarten students during a class on Jan. 23 at Roesland Elementary School in Roeland Park, Ks.John Milburn/AP Originally Published at Education Justice. March 14, 2014 | The Luke Gannon v. State of Kansas Decision After a 16-day trial in Gannon v. [...]
