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Tag - Brown v. Board of Education

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Benjamin W. Arnett, Black Educator Hall of Fame

February 25, 2021
by Center for Black Educator Development CBED
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E’ry day this month, the Center for Black Educator Development, in partnership with Phillys7thWard.org, will highlight a Black Educator Hall of Famer. But, don’t forget, e’ry month is Black History...

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Dr. Inez Beverly Prosser, Black Educator Hall of Fame

February 20, 2021
by Center for Black Educator Development CBED
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E’ry day this month, the Center for Black Educator Development, in partnership with Phillys7thWard.org, will highlight a Black Educator Hall of Famer. But, don’t forget, e’ry month is Black History...

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Jo Ann Robinson, Black Educator Hall of Fame

February 5, 2021
by Center for Black Educator Development CBED
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E’ry day this month, the Center for Black Educator Development, in partnership with Phillys7thWard.org, will highlight a Black Educator Hall of Famer. But, don’t forget, e’ry month is Black History Month...

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Public Schools Have Always Been Separate And Unequal. Today They’re Funded to Stay That Way

April 1, 2019
by Sharif El-Mekki
5 min read
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Students around the country are taught about America’s glorious victory in Brown v. Board of Education, the seminal moment that undid Plessy v. Ferguson’s separate but equal racial segregation. Desegregation is touted as a...

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Every Single New Year Black Families Await the Promise of Better Schools

January 8, 2019
by Sharif El-Mekki
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Almost every December 31, at 7:00 p.m., my family joins the Avenging the Ancestors Coalition (ATAC) to honor our ancestors who awaited in breathtaking suspense for Lincoln’s promise of an Emancipation Proclamation. This...

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Black America, It’s Time We Take the Education of Our People Into Our Own Hands

May 24, 2018
by Robin Muldor
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Last week marked 64 years since the Supreme Court ended segregation in our schools. The Brown v. Board of Education ruling overturned Plessy v. Ferguson—the “separate but equal” law—supposedly so that Black children...

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