Avid reader Sidney Keys III was excited to find a St. Louis bookstore filled with positive stories about Black youths, but he didn’t have anyone his age to discuss them with, so he decided to create Books N Bros book club.
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Was the Desegregation of Schools Really the Best Thing for ‘Underserved’ Black Children? – Atlanta Black Star
For more than 60 years, the advertised solution to apartheid academics is to place Black and white pupils in the same school. The pursuit of diverse classrooms accepts that entirely Black schools are inherently and irreversibly defective.
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Campus Backlash After Leaders of Black Colleges Meet With Trump – The New York Times
It was a scalding message, painted on a university campus sidewalk this week: “Welcome to the Trump plantation. Overseer: Wayne A. I. Frederick.”
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HBCUs maintain funding they already had in Trump’s proposed budget – The Philadelphia Tribune
President Donald Trump released his 2018 budget for America on Thursday, and HBCUs will maintain the level of funding they have been given before — in the amount of $492 million.
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HBCUs Graduate More Poor Black Students Than White Colleges – NPR
“HBCUs remain at the forefront of opening doors that had previously been closed to so many…”
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More choice and less quality: The NAACP hold hearing on the state of education – Michigan Chronicle
In the fifth of seven public hearings, the NAACP Task Force, the Detroit branch of the NAACP and the Michigan State Conference held a hearing on Wednesday to discuss the state of quality education.
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Separate, Still Unequal: Maryland HBCU Students Fed Up with State’s Unequal Funding – Atlanta Black Star
Historically Black colleges and universities students in Maryland claim their universities are treated like they have 3/5’s of the value of predominately white institutions because of the lackluster federal funding HBCUs have received over the years.
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University of Michigan Students Demand ‘Non-Whites Only’ Space for Social Justice Work, Organizing – Atlanta Black Star
Student activists at the University of Michigan are demanding that school officials provide them with a designated campus space solely “for Black students and students of color to organize and do social justice work.”
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The Failure of Race-Blind Economic Policy – The Atlantic
When legislators don’t consider preexisting disparities, there’s a risk of exacerbating them.
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This Damning Chart Shows How Much of a Head Start White Families Have Over Black Families – Slate
The yawning wealth gap between black and white families is one of the starkest legacies of America’s history of racist social policymaking.
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