There is always much talk about integration, segregation, and desegregation. There is less talk of the power Black families hold and a blueprint Black parents can use to make demands that create seismic shifts for what they...
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Gloria Ladson-Billings remembers that there was a difference between the black and white teachers she had growing up in Philadelphia. African-American teachers could give the students “the talk,” she recalls, referring to...
In the latest 8 Black Hands Podcast, the crew, minus Citizen Stewart, is joined by civil rights activist and educational freedom fighter, Dr. Howard Fuller. The conversation touches on desegregation, busing and integration...
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...
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...
Affluent people love their walls. They’re willing to spend tons of money to create a barrier between them and people who “look different.” The current administration’s push to build a border wall didn’t come out of...
When it comes to school choice we should follow what our leaders do more than what they say. This past week represented both Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr’s day of celebration, and the beginning of...
I was recently in Hartford, Connecticut, at the invitation of Mama Gwen Samuel, an activist who works on behalf and with the community. I wasn’t prepared for what I was to encounter; callousness of Black bourgeois, disregard...
“The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.”—Gloria Steinem Dear White People, Days ago, I, like many of you, watched in horror the vile display of bigotry and hatred, violence and terror that unfolded in...