by lindaoppenheim | Jan 8, 2019 | Article
With New York City schools system one of the most segregated in the country, some black parents are choosing an alternative to integration. Eliza Shapiro writes “Afrocentric schools aim to empower black children in ways that traditional schools in America...
by lindaoppenheim | Dec 10, 2018 | Opinion
In his New York Times op ed, Casey Gerald, author of There Will Be No Miracles Here, reflects on the expose about the Louisiana school T. M. Landry and his own experience from a poor neighborhood in Texas through Yale, Wall Street, and the Washington political scene. ...
by lindaoppenheim | Dec 7, 2018 | Article, Opinion
With his essay, “This is what an antiracist America would look like. How do we get there?,” Ibram X. Kendi, author of Stamped from the Beginning 2016 National Book Award winner for nonfiction and Founding Director of the Antiracist Research and Policy...
by lindaoppenheim | Oct 25, 2018 | Podcast, Video
Focusing on the documentary “America to Me,” about race relations at the high school in the affluent town of Oak Park, Illinois, on his program 1a, Joshua Johnson hosts: Charles Donalson Former student, Oak Park-River Forest High School in Oak Park,...
by lindaoppenheim | Oct 22, 2018 | Article
Erica L. Green and Annie Waldman in collaboration with ProPublica report on the historical and current conditions in the Charlottesville, Virginia public schools that reveal that sharp divide between black and white students in this university town. One white parent...