In the next round of the Integrated Schools book club, we will be learning from Dr. Eve Ewing as we read her book Ghosts in the School Yard. A summary from Dr. Ewing’s website: “In the spring of 2013, approximately 12,000 children in Chicago received notice that...
Hello. Welcome to the Movement. My name is Anna and I am a White mom from Los Angeles -more specifically the stolen land of the Tongva Tribe. I am one of the members of the Integrated Schools Parent Board. We have had an astonishing number of new visitors, followers,...
On May 21, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund hosted a web event with (newly) Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah Jones and LDF President Sherrilyn Ifill. The discussion focused on Brown II, which is the less well known but equally infamous supreme court ruling...
This week, both Nikole Hannah-Jones (interviewed by Dometi Pongo for MTV News) and Ibram X Kendi (in his essay for The Atlantic) expressed how, one more time, communities of color are suffering disproportionally from this pandemic in the most acute and violent ways....
Part 1 of the roundup, published yesterday, looked at recent school integration debates in Austin, TX and Wake County, NC. This post summarizes similar activity in Sausalito, Oakland, nearby Baltimore, Charleston, SC and Richmond, VA. As I note in the first post,...
Originally posted July 3rd by Peter Piazza at the School Diversity Notebook. The school integration community received a jolt last week when “busing” and voluntary school integration unexpectedly took center stage at the Democratic primary. I’m sure that readers of...
