by Courtney Mykytyn | Jul 28, 2016 | news, our stories, parenting, race
(I was interviewed about the presentation I gave last weekend… please please don’t laugh at that picture; was the only photo that didn’t have kids/dogs/grilled cheese sandwiches in it… ) Parent and anthropologist Courtney Everts Mykytyn...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Jul 27, 2016 | news, race
Tim Kaine’s wife went to integrated schools in Virginia. And that fact was important enough to make it into his accepting-the-VP nomination speech tonight! Kaine says: “We’ve got to advance opportunity for everyone. No matter where they come from,...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Jul 27, 2016 | news, race
The Strange Fruit of the Equity and Empathy Gap THIS: “Now, however, the United States has a far deeper problem. We have a profoundly endogenous equity and empathy gap. What the too frequent impunity of police in disproportionate killing of Black men and the market...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Jul 25, 2016 | news, race
http://50can.org/what-we-do/blog/how-another-police-shooting-reveals-public-education’s-problems-race From Mr. Alleyne (but click on the link! worth a full read!) “There are clear policy solutions to issues of police violence. But the education system...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Jul 21, 2016 | news, parenting, race
sigh… choice = segregation… and this (which you’ve read before) from Nikole Hannah-Jones “The sense of helplessness in the face of such entrenched segregation is what makes so alluring the notion, embraced by liberals and conservatives, that we...
