Photograph; Students walk through the Loop March 25, 2013, to protest plan to close 50 Chicago elementary schools. | Scott Olson/Getty ImagesYour Take: Sixty years after Brown v. Board of Education, black communities are fighting a new threat that is destroying educational opportunities. By Jitu Brown [...]
Michelle Obama attended the "Senior Recognition Day" event with high school students in Topeka, Kan., on Friday. | Credit Sait Serkan Gurbuz/Reuters By Sheryl Gay Stolberg | Originally Published at The New York times. May 16, 2014 TOPEKA, Kan. — Sixty years after the Supreme Court outlawed [...]
Photo Courtesy of Don Harder, CC2.0) By Susan Eaton | The Nation. May 15, 2014 Sixty years after Brown, whiter, wealthier communities are breaking away from racially and economically diverse school districts. A new secessionist movement, anchored in the South, provides yet another reminder that “separate” [...]
Generic image | THINKSTOCK By The Root Staff | Originally Published at ,/em>The Root. May 15 2014 3:00 AMUsing these common words and phrases with questionable histories just might make you sound like an accidental racist. A recent NPR story revealed the disturbing and shockingly racist origins [...]
Photograph; M.K. Nguyen ends the protest with a Unity Chant as groups protest on the median in front of Sarah T. Reed High School to protest school closure, Monday, December 9, 2013. (Photo by Ted Jackson, Nola.com | The Times-Picayune) By Danielle Dreilinger | Originally Published atThe [...]
Photograph courtesy Peggy McIntosh. By Joshua Rothman | Originally Published at The New Yorker. May 13, 2014 The idea of “privilege”—that some people benefit from unearned, and largely unacknowledged, advantages, even when those advantages aren’t discriminatory —has a pretty long history. In the nineteen-thirties, W. E. B. [...]
Some of the students who led protests over the district’s Collegiate Academy charter schools withdrew from those schools and enrolled in Liberation Academy, founded by parents and local activists. By Jordan Flaherty| Originally Published at The Root. May 13 2014 3:00 AM Every year hundreds of young, [...]
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. [...]
By Theodore R. Johnson, III | Originally Published at National Public Radio. May 11, 2014 "N*gg*r Love A Watermelon Ha! Ha! Ha!" merits the distinction of the most racist song title in America. Released in March 1916 by Columbia Records, it was written by actor Harry C. [...]
