Books

By the time I was 7 years old I knew drugs were bad. I didn’t need a parent to sit me down on their knee and tell me this because Saturday morning cartoons were frequently interrupted by an advertisement brought to me by Partnership for [...]

The 2007 Critics’ Choice Award winning book, Black Hands in the Biscuits Not in the Classrooms by Dr. Sherick A. Hughes, portrays one southern community’s experience of desegregation through keen observations, rare archival documents and in-depth firsthand narratives analyzed as part of an extensive native [...]

In the tradition of “Maus” and “Persepolis,” “March” tells the story of young African Americans who, like its author, rose up from the Jim Crow South to assert their human rights. By Valerie Schloredt | Originally Published at Yes! Magazine. March 06, 2014 Selma, Alabama, March [...]

Why do so many whites respond to the dog whistle refrain that they, and not minorities, are today’s most likely victims of racial discrimination? Colorblindness helps to legitimate the substance of dog whistle complaints because it promotes understandings of race and racism that obscure discrimination [...]

Few names conjure the recalcitrant South, fighting integration with fire-breathing fury, like that of George Wallace. The central image of this “redneck poltergeist,” as one biographer referred to him, is of Wallace during his inauguration as governor of Alabama in January 1963, before waves of [...]

John Lewis; March: Book One – The Book Reviewed Reviewed By Robert Kirby | Originally Published at The Comics Journal October 23, 2013 March: Book One is the memoir of Congressman John Lewis (District 5, Georgia) who has had a long and distinguished political [...]

Media Coverage, Interviews, Collaboration October ABC Action News. Parents in Action: Teacher/Parent Communications. Angela Ardolino. October 3, 2013. September Yahoo Shine. Beth Greenfield. Walmart Naughty Leopard Halloween costume. Sept. 26, 2013. Boston.com. Barbara Meltz. “Child Caring: Kids & [...]

Professional Talks To Teachers, Parents & Beyond FALL 2013 MOC Community Partnerships & Strengthening Families Alliance—Fitchburg, MA. Parent Workshop. “Meeting Children’s Needs in Violent Times.” Sept. 25. Alaska Pacific University, Anchorage, Alaska. Keynote address/training for teachers, parents, and counselors. “Beyond the Screen: [...]

Tim Macpherson/STONE+, via Getty Images Carefully read the instructions on the cover of the test booklet. By Jonathan Kozol | Originally Published at The New York Times September 26, 2013 Over the past 20 years, a rising tide of voices in the world of public policy has [...]