Tag Archives: Racial Justice
The Cradle to Prison Pipeline: America’s New Apartheid
This article was originally published in Marian Wright Edelman’s Child Watch Columns on Feburary 6, 2009. Reused by permission. All rights retained by Marian Wright Edelman and the Children’s Defense Fund (CDF). Incarceration is becoming the new American apartheid, and … Continue reading
Growing up in the South During Brown v. Board
I was sitting in my eighth grade classroom with 20 or so other students, mid-afternoon on May 17, 1954. I dont recall the subject we were discussing, but the acting principal of my 12-grade school in Monroe, NC, opened the … Continue reading
Brown v. Board, The Little Rock Nine, and Presbyterian Public Witness
A longer version of this article originally appeared in Doing Justice, Loving Kindness, and Walking Humbly: The Witness of Some Southern Presbyterian Pastors for the Cause of Racial Harmony in the 1950s and 1960s, compiled by James S. Currie. All … Continue reading
Struggles and Sacrifices
Broken Places in our Education Systems Public Schools and the Public Good: The Social Contract We Have ‘Left Behind’, Jan Resseger “In a democracy, we are responsible, through our elected representatives, for ensuring that our public institutions distribute opportunity to … Continue reading