Perception of Police Varies By Race
In news that will surprise probably no one, recent polling by the Pew Research Center for…
The Past Week and the Work Ahead
The summer has been filled with news of tragic deaths of unarmed African American men and…
What It’s Like To Investigate Police Misconduct
On NPR’s Code Switch blog today, Monica Potts shares her experience as an investigator of police…
Questioning How The Media Portrays African Americans
There’s a large body of research which shows that media portrayals help to form, perpetuate and…
Implicit Bias in the Schools
Today over at HuffPo, Law Professor Leland Ware has an important post about the school to…
Inclusion and “My Brother’s Keeper”
One criticism that has arisen about My Brother’s Keeper is that, by focusing solely on black…
Stopping Automatic Suspensions
So good news from the world of education. As the American Prospect’s Bryce Wilson Stucki reports,…
Do The Right Thing at 25
Do The Right Thing, one of the greatest movies of all time, turns 25 this week….
Tenure is Not the Problem
sonsandbrothers: A California court has struck down teacher tenure and seniority protections. The implications of this…
Representations and Reparations
American Theater Magazine’s Rob Weinert-Kendt writes about how a recently-closed play in New York’s contemplation of…
How Minorities Could Transform Political Power in the South
think-progress: If unregistered black, Hispanic and Asian voters registered, the South would look VERY different.
W.E.B Du Bois’s Indian penpal
Link: W.E.B Du Bois’s Indian penpal nprcodeswitch: Source:Library of Congress/Wikimedia Commons In the 1940s, B.R. Ambedkar,…