Race or Class? The Future of Affirmative Action on the College CampusFocusing college-student recruitment on poor neighborhoods can overlook middle-class African Americans entitled to affirmative action. By Richard Rothstein | American Prospect. July 2014 Chief Justice John Roberts says that “the way to stop [...]
The Case for ReparationsTwo hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow.Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy.Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.Ta-Nehisi CoatesOriginally Published at The Atlantic. [...]
Segregation Now…Sixty years after Brown v. Board of Education, the schools in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, show how separate and unequal education is coming back. Though James Dent could watch Central High School’s homecoming parade from the porch of his faded-white bungalow, it had been [...]
The ‘Superpredator’ Scare After a surge of teen violence in the early 1990s, some social scientists predicted the future was going to be a whole lot worse. Reality proved otherwise. Click on the image above to view the video. By Clyde Haberman | Originally Published at [...]
Promo video for I, Too, Am Harvard made by Ahsante Bean, Harvard College Class of 2015BuzzFeed Review Black Harvard Students Share Their Experiences MAR. 3 2014 MAR. 1 2014 MAR. 1 2014 MAR. 1 2014 MAR. 1 2014 MAR. 1 2014 MAR. 1 2014 [...]
By Adam Bessie and Josh Neufeld, | Truthout | Graphic Journalism. February 7, 2014 1] “Promise Neighborhoods and the Importance of Community: Remarks of U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan at Neval Thomas Elementary School, Washington, DC.” Dec. 21, 2012 [2] “Fuel Your School Program Benefits [...]
In response to the question "If You Had A Trillion Dollars…Page May submitted "I'd Choose Us" "I'd Choose Us" 24 seconds That's all it takes Every two four We're closer to ignorance one second more Cus every twenty four more another kid walks out the [...]
CPS Budget Begs Action We hear that more schools are closing in Chicago, than elsewhere. Budget constraints are blamed. However, nationally, a trend appears obvious, or is it ominous? City schools shutter their doors and windows while suburban schools receive more funds. There [...]
In America the premise is people are colorblind. Certainly our children are is the constant refrain. I know this is not so, for as a child I saw what was not discussed. The people who did not care for and about me were white. Those who cherished [...]
