Recap of the #Brownat60 National Week of Action This past Saturday was the 60th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education. Parents, students and educators nationwide marked the anniversary with a National Week of Action to demand our country renew its commitment to Brown's [...]
The Case for Reparations Lives On Today
empathy2016-11-29T17:39:25-05:00The 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. [...]
Journey For Justice – Our Children Are Not Collateral Damage Webinar
empathy2016-11-29T17:39:26-05:00Journey for Justice Alliance Webinar – Our Children Are Not Collateral Damage Jitu Brown, married and father of one child, is the National Director of the Journey For Justice Alliance. Born and raised on the south side of Chicago, Jitu has [...]
Diamond McCullough – J4J Webinar Panelist
empathy2016-11-29T17:39:26-05:00Diamond McCullough Diamond McCullough is a seventeen year-old senior at Walter H. Dyett High School on the south side of Chicago. She is a youth leader with the Kenwood Oakland Community Organization. Diamond is also a teen youth leader in the Voices of [...]
Sharon Smith – J4J Webinar Panelist
empathy2016-11-29T17:39:26-05:00Sharon Smith Sharon Smith is the President and CEO of Parents Unified for Local School Education (PULSENJ), a parent-led non-profit organization created to train, organize, mobilize, and inform parents about education issues, parental rights, bringing parents into the decision making process, empowering parents [...]
Parrish Doral Brown Jr. – J4J Webinar Panelist
empathy2016-11-29T17:39:26-05:00Parrish Doral Brown Jr. On the day April 9th, 1996 early in the morning in Norwegian American Hospital, a child named Parrish Doral Brown Jr. was born. He is a proud African American male and the son of Denise Brown and Parrish Doral [...]
j was young&happy (and everyone hated her for it)
empathy2016-11-29T17:39:27-05:00By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at the everyday motion of artifacts. April 2, 2014 j was young&happy (and everyone hated her for it) Happiness hit her like a train on a track… Happiness hit her like a bullet in the back “Dog [...]
Refuse The Tests!
empathy2016-11-29T17:39:28-05:00Because a Good Education Can't Be Measured By a Test Score Number of NYC Parents Refusing State Tests Expected to Triple in 2014 What began two years ago as a small pocket of resistance has burgeoned into a full-blown protest movement: public school parents are [...]
Memoir; Star Student Tried to Get Into College and Could Not
empathy2016-11-29T17:39:28-05:00This Teacher Made A Video About His Star Student Trying To Get Into College. She's Not Getting In. Clint Smith tells us that "Everything I write, even when it’s not directly about me, is informed by my students. "Memoir” wasn’t something I thought about until I [...]