One morning during my junior year of high school, I remember my homeroom teacher saying to me in a dismissive tone that Malcolm X was a bad person. I am unsure how we got on the topic of figures in Black history, but I mentioned...
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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...
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...
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...
Does Brown v. Board of Education represent a historical event or an ongoing national journey? As we mark the 66th anniversary of the monumental decision that ended legal segregation, the implications of that question...
Dr. Howard Fuller hails from Milwaukee, the most segregated major city in the country. He says it doesn’t bother him, though. The decorated 78-year-old activist and educator has spent a lifetime agitating for civil rights as...
We, as a nation, are chasing the wrong things. From Boston to Birmingham, we have seen the ferocious and virulent reaction of white people to the thought of integration. From throwing bricks at school buses full of black kids...
Earlier this month marked 162 years since the racist U.S. Supreme Court, once again, loudly and proudly declared white supremacy as the law of the land in their ruling on the Dred Scott case, stating, Black people “had no...
When the U.S. Supreme Court issued its landmark Brown v. Board decision in 1954, there were 82,000 Black teachers. But in the following decade, the number of Black teachers in the United States dropped drastically. More...
Recently, I read an article entitled When White Parents Won’t Integrate Public Schools by Mimi Kirk. It is a thoughtful, honest, relevant piece praising the benefits of integrated schools, particularly for Black and Brown...