The Burning House Historical Timeline of Public Education in the US | Race Forward 1647The General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony decrees that every town of fifty families should have an elementary school and that every town of 100 families should have a Latin school. The goal is to ensure that Puritan children learn to read the Bible and receive basic information about their Calvinist religion. 1779Thomas Jefferson proposes a two-track educational system, with different tracks in his words for "the laboring and the learned." Scholarship would allow a very few of the laboring class to advance, Jefferson says, by "raking a few geniuses from the rubbish." 1785The Continental Congress (before the U.S. Constitution was ratified) passes a law calling for a survey of the "Northwest Territory" which included what was to become the state of Ohio. 1790Pennsylvania state constitution calls for free public education but only for poor children. 1805New York Public School Society formed by wealthy businessmen to provide education for poor children. 1896Plessy v.
New York City teachers' strike of 1968 Albert Shanker The New York City teachers' strike of 1968 was a months-long confrontation between the new community-controlled school board in the largely black Ocean-Hill Brownsville section of Brooklyn and New York City’s United Federation of Teachers. The strike dragged on from May 1968 to November 1968, shutting down the public schools for a total of 36 days and increasing racial tensions between Blacks and Jews. Thousands of New York City teachers went on strike in 1968 when the school board of Ocean Hill–Brownsville abruptly dismissed a set of teachers and administrators. The newly created school district, in a mostly Black neighborhood, was an experiment in community control over schools—the dismissed workers were almost all white and Jewish. The United Federation of Teachers (UFT), led by Albert Shanker, demanded the teachers' reinstatement. Background[edit] Brownsville[edit] From the 1880s through the 1960s, Brownsville was predominantly Jewish and politically radical. Sincerely,
JUSTICE FOR RENISHA: From No Arrest to a Guilty Verdict (left) Theodore Wafer and Renisha McBride When 19-year-old Renisha McBride was shot in the face after knocking on a White man's door in suburban Detroit, I tweeted that her death would probably not mean as much to Black people as the then recent shooting of 24-year-old Jonathan Ferrell. I doubted aloud if her murder would mean as much as Trayvon Martin's, for whom we'd united to demand justice. I wasn't feeling particularly divisive, just resigned. Even though I lived in Detroit, where I was born, when Renisha was murdered, I didn't hear about her killing until days after the Dearborn Heights police department had deemed it unworthy of investigation. I remembered that I had power, reach and influence and I called a rally at the Dearborn Heights police department, demanding that they do their jobs and investigate Renisha McBride's killing. Though the story did gain national traction, not a single news agency would print Ted Wafer's name. We didn't always know the door was locked.
Looking at Black Males in America Through Charts Thanks to the Internet, there’s no shortage of graphic images that can illustrate almost any statistic that we can come up with. So lucky for us, since African Americans are so well analyzed in this country, there are charts that can explain where Black males stand on achievement and opportunity that point out to us where we’re going. RELATED: The School-to-Prison Pipeline: How Our Educational System Creates Inmates Looking around, you can find some interesting figures, not that you have to believe everything you read, but many are backed up with sound scientific data and a lot of it can change your perception of where Black people, particularly males, stand. The chart below was created by Ivory A. This Bureau of Labor Statistics graph shows us a clear view of where Black males are most likely to be employed. And this directly correlates to Black boy mobility. …and where Black men and boys wind up shows a significant difference. So how does this look on a nationwide map?
How One Bad Perm Launched A Natural Hair Company Ten years ago, a bad relaxer led a teen girl to launch her own natural hair product company. Jasmine Lawrence appeared on “The Oprah Show” back in 2007. She told the story of how a bad hair experience encouraged her to never use harsh chemicals again and, eventually, create her own line of natural products. {*style:<i>*}“This year… EDEN BodyWorks turns 10 years old,” Jasmine says in the above video.
How to Talk Like a San Franciscan This article originally appeared on February 26, 1984. If you have spent any time in bookstores lately, you must have noticed that there are books on San Francisco's past, present and future; books that tell you where to eat, where to drink, where to drive, where to take a bus, where to stay, what to look at and even how to cook in the San Francisco style, whatever that is. But no book tells you how to act like a native San Franciscan, because it is widely assumed that the breed, if it ever existed, is extinct. One book, "San Francisco Free and Easy," subtitled "The Native's Guide Book," says on the first page, "San Franciscans are notorious newcomers. Another, written by a carpetbagger named John K. Fifteen years ago? A terrible thing has happened to native San Franciscans. The first thing to go is the language. The first lesson - learned at birth - is never to call it Frisco or San FRANcisco. It may also be called "Thecity", which is one word. Q: Whereya from? A: Here. Q: Oh yeah?
#IfTheyGunnedMeDown Campaign Tackles How The Media Portray Black Victims of Shootings You can always count on mainstream media to pick and choose what they think are the scariest pictures of you they can find, even if you're the victim of the shooting. Remember how they portrayed Trayvon Martin as a thug, conveniently forgetting to show us regular pictures of him and focusing on his grill, hoodie, weed, etc.? More recently they did the same with Mike Brown, who was shot dead by the Ferguson, Missouri police. Fortunately, activists and every day people took to the Internet for a #IfTheyGunnedMeDown campaign. A Black Girl’s Encounter With The Prison Industrial Complex | NewBlackMan (in Exile) Pretty Sparkly Things: A Black Girl’s Encounter With The Prison Industrial Complex by Tanisha C. Ford | special to NewBlackMan (in Exile) | The Feminist Wire I love clothes. I always have. As a black girl coming of age in the early 1990s, I was up on all the adornment trends: from asymmetrical haircuts and Cross Colours jeans to neckties and button down shirts (a la Boyz II Men). One day, my stylish Mother came home with a white denim short set that she’d bought for me. So naturally, when my Father told me we were going to visit my older brother who was serving time in prison, I knew exactly what I was going to wear: my outfit with the pretty sparkly things! I had never been to a prison before. Another visitor informed my Father that the guards might not let me in because my pretty sparkly things violated the visitors’ dress code. Guards have power and prisoners and visitors have none. Tassels Cargo pants Open-toed shoes Bobby pins Barrettes Earrings Sleeveless shirts Underwire bras Shorts
Suggested Best Practices for Supporting Trans* Students Suggested Best Practices for Supporting Trans* Students Contact: jen self, Publications & Communication Chair, pubcom@lgbtcampus.org The Consortium of Higher Education LGBT Resource Professionals’ Trans* Policy Working Group, in consultation with national student affairs associations, developed best practice recommendations to assist colleges and universities in providing services and support to trans* students. In February 2014, the Consortium charged Dr. Genny Beemyn, chair of the appointed eight person, multi-regional working group to devise trans* policies and practices. While schools will vary in the resources they can offer and their ability to implement the recommendations, the practices set a bar of competency for which institutions should strive in addressing the needs of trans* students—students whose gender identity and/or expression challenges binary notions of “male” and “female.” Shared Vision and Mission Statement Consortium of Higher Education LGBT Resource Professionals
A love letter to strong women | Suey Park Dear Strong Woman, Has anyone ever told you it’s okay to experience pain, trauma, abuse, and loss without resolution? Our culture only wants to hear of suffering if it has been overcome. No, not eliminated. Don’t you know people want inspiration? Has anyone ever told you that not everything has a happy ending? Refuse to justify the logics of abuse by saying it helps you to grow strong. Your pain exists whether or not it is consumable. When people say “stand with ____” do they even bother asking if you are already lying down? And they will tell you this is the price you pay when you dare speak of your pain. Don’t you know a poster girl only exists in print? If they stab you, they deserve to watch you bleed. Has anyone ever told you it’s okay to cry? When people say “be strong” they mean “please harden yourself” when it should be “let’s soften the world” instead. There’s no need to say “thank you” when someone calls you strong. Love, A “Strong” Woman Like this: Like Loading...
Ta-Nehisi Coates and the boundaries of legitimate debate At the Sixth and I synagogue in Washington on Thursday night, people were reselling tickets out on the street as if a playoff game was taking place inside, rather than a talk by Ta-Nehisi Coates, a national correspondent for the Atlantic. The subject of the event was Coates’s recent cover story for the magazine, “The Case for Reparations,” which has broken traffic records and vanished from newsstands. (The Atlantic) While the piece is popular, the turnout for Coates and the reception he received in the sanctuary reflected something larger than the enthusiasm for a single article. “The Case for Reparations” managed to revive and reframe a major policy debate about race in the United States. But the piece is part of a larger project, a redefinition of what counts as a legitimate conversation about race in the United States and an attempt to define what intellectual credentials are required to enter that debate. At Sixth and I, Coates recalled what the standards were when he was in college.
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Which Picture Would They Use? #IfTheyGunnedMeDown I wrote on twitter yesterday about how, after I looked through this tag, it occurred to me that of the hundreds of photos of me doing a keg stand or giving the finger or showing off my tongue ring or wearing something decidedly unconservative or generally goofing off, the media would still choose my graduation photo or me holding my baby cousins or acting in a play or giving a speech or wearing the cute pink dress in my head shot I use for commercial gigs. It made me so mad. I am a party girl and I do get up to shit and I am a college grad and I do love my family. I am all of that and much more, like everyone is, but in the eyes of the media, I would just be a poor little white girl with a bright smile and a big future. I don't deserve that representation, I've done nothing to earn it any more than an 18-year-old kid did anything to earn being looked at as just another thug.