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 towards liberating...
--Peter Piazza (Center for Education and Civil Rights at Penn State) It seems like a good time to update my previous post about media coverage of the exchange between Kamala Harris and Joe Biden about school integration/“busing” at the Democratic Primary debate...
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 tried to...
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 because...
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 necessary but not...
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