If you’ll be in or around Richmond, VA on Oct 25-26…
Join us for a Friday Night (10/25) panel discussion Learning Together: The Intersection of Race and Education with Genevieve Siegal-Hawley,Taikein Cooper, and Courtney Mykytyn. 630 – 8pm at the Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU (601 Broad Street)…Read More
Book Club coming in November!
Our November 14th & 17th book club sessions will be digging in to Ibram X. Kendi’s new book, How To Be An Antiracist. This book “reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justice in America — but even more fundamentally, points us towa…Read More
Busing did not fail. We did.
And… here it is! Nikole Hannah-Jones on the “busing” debate. “That we even use the word “busing” to describe what was in fact court-ordered school desegregation, and that Americans of all stripes believe that the brief period in which we actually tri…Read More
Busing Isn’t the Question…
This article, “Do You Support Busing?’ is Not the Best Question” gives a nice overview of why the discussion over busing can be a distraction… It is definitely worth a read. But problematically, the author writes that “Schools are segregated b…Read More
What are we prepared to do today?
Take a few minutes to appreciate this TED Talk by Stockton Mayor Michael Tubbs “the first step to making change is to answer the question: Who is our neighbor? … But CHARITY IS NOT JUSTICE. Acts of empathy are not justice. Being a good neighbor is ne…Read More