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Imperfect Choices: With Integrated Schools Out Of Reach, Segregated Options Gain Favor Twenty years after Sheff v. O’Neill — Connecticut’s decree that racial isolation in Hartford schools violated children’s constitutional rights — neighborhood schools have been left in the ruling’s shadow. Kathleen Megan and Matthew Kauffman Contact Reporters Connecticut’s network of regional magnet schools, long hailed […]
TROUBLED SCHOOLS ON TRIAL: FIRST OF SEVEN STORIES WHEN POVERTY PERMEATES THE CLASSROOM Struggling to cope with past sexual abuse and a mother who works long hours at a low-wage job, Alex regularly breaks down while at school. The screaming, crawling and crying of this 5-year-old at North Windham Elementary School – and the arrival […]
John Lewis Accepts National Book Award With Emotional Speech As a teenager, the congressman wasn’t even allowed to get a library card because of his race. Emily Tate Politics Intern, The Huffington Post In a powerful acceptance speech at the National Book Awards ceremony Wednesday night, civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) recalled how […]
On Views of Race and Inequality, Blacks and Whites Are Worlds Apart About four-in-ten blacks are doubtful that the U.S. will ever achieve racial equality Almost eight years after Barack Obama’s election as the nation’s first black president –an event that engendered a sense of optimism among many Americans about the future of […]
Photo source: http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/muhammad- ali Muhammad Ali (1942-2016) was an American former heavyweight champion boxer and one of the greatest sporting figures of the 20th century. An Olympic gold medalist and the first fighter to capture the heavyweight title three times, Ali won 56 times in his 21-year professional career. Ali’s outspokenness on issues of race, […]
When Christians Won’t Say #BlackLivesMatter Kevin Wright Kevin Wright currently serves as the Minister of Education at The Riverside Church in the City of New York …[M]any Christians hesitate or refuse to say #BlackLivesMatter when one would think that their affinity for a marginalized Jewish man who preached a message of good news for the […]
New York City might be a liberal hub, but that doesn’t mean white parents want their children going to school with black kids. Rebecca Klein Editor, HuffPost Education New York City didn’t experience school desegregation in the 1960s and ‘70s like other metropolitan areas. Unlike in Little Rock, Arkansas, the National Guard was never brought in […]
Touré Author of “Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness? What It Means To Be Black Now” We should just call it what it is: Donald Trump is the leader of the White Lives Matter movement. Someone had to start it — they were gettin’ out of control. First, one of them became president and […]
NHLBI Sickle Cell Resources September is National Sickle Cell Awareness Month. First officially recognized by the federal government in 1983, National Sickle Cell Awareness Month calls attention to sickle cell disease (SCD), a genetic disease that researchers estimate affects between 90,000 and 100,000 Americans. Access resources here.