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 [...]
By Gaayathri Nair | Originally Published at The Feminist Wire. March 18, 2014 I am a good immigrant girl. We only ever spoke English in my family. It is my first and only language. I understand fragments of my mother tongue, but the words twist and [...]
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 [...]
By Sarah Fuss | Originally Published at TakePart. March 12, 2014 Dontadrian Bruce is the kind of kid the U.S. Departments of Education and Justice might have had in mind when they released the new school disciplinary guidelines in January. The new federal approach urges schools to [...]
By Imani Perry | Originally Published at The New York Times. MARCH 12, 2014 The My Brother’s Keeper initiative is a response to a terrible social reality. Black boys and men are suffering mightily in this nation. The cause is important. However, this endeavor raises serious concerns. [...]
By Dorinda Carter Andrews | Originally Published at AcademiaEdu. March 10, 2014 In this talk, Dorinda Carter Andrews challenges us to consider how gaps in critical consciousness and mindsets for adults and students in schools prevent us from providing equitable schooling experiences for all students. Specifically, Carter [...]
Image: Racial Stereotypes retrieved from tumblr By Esther Quintero | Originally Published at Shaker Blog. April 4, 2014 This is the first in a series of three posts about implicit bias. Here are the second and third parts. The research on implicit bias both fascinates and disturbs [...]
Joshua Cintron, 10, prays during funeral services for his cousin, Naisha Pearson, at St. Luke's Church in the Bronx. Pearson, 10, was shot and killed by a stray bullet at a neighborhood Labor Day picnic in a Bronx park when a fight between two men erupted in [...]
