Michelle Alexander, highly acclaimed civil rights lawyer, advocate, Associate Professor of Law at Ohio State University, and author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, delivers the 30th Annual George E. Kent Lecture, in honor of the late George E. Kent, who was one... Read more...
In Mississippi, ‘ Extreme Discipline ’ Targets Minority US School Kids: Report Civil rights groups in the United States released a report Thursday claiming that harsh punishments at schools across Mississippi have led to a disproportionate number of minority students being suspended, expelled... Read more...
Supporters of Temple University African American Studies In Temple’s 25th anniversary year of the doctoral program, the Department of African American Studies is currently in receivership. Previous faculty nominations for a Chair have been dismissed and an external Chair search has been denie... Read more...
The Black-White achievement gap is alive and well in the United States. Take New York City as an example. According to a recent article in the New York Times, in the city’s 3rd-8th grades, 40% of black students met state standards in the 2010 math tests. This is compared with 75% of white studen... Read more...
African American pupils are far less likely to take college prep classes and more likely to miss school because of suspensions, a group finds, calling for strong intervention. African American public school students in Los Angeles County demonstrate significant learning gaps by second grade; thos... Read more...
Robert Downs has attended Norfolk Public Schools since kindergarten, but it wasn't until fifth grade that his mother learned of the division's program for gifted students. "If it hadn't been for one of my friends who's a teacher, I would have never known," Jamila Downs said. Downs followed up w... Read more...
Faulty equipment, fights in the hallways, overcrowded classrooms, failing grades, security guards, scarce resources and high suspension rates. This is not the description of a school in some Third World war torn country. It is the unfortunate yet glaring reality facing thousands of Black, Latino an... Read more...
After murders in Black communites, reading and math scores for Black students go down he Black-White achievement gap is alive and well in the United States. Take New York City as an example. According to a recent article in the New York Times, in the city’s 3rd-8th grades, 40% of... Read more...