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‘What’s it like to be black in this system?’: life in a Chicago high school | The Guardian
For his captivating new documentary series, film-maker Steve James spent a year with students at Oak Park River Forest high
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The Secret Network of Black Teachers Behind the Fight for Desegregation | The Atlantic
In her new book, Vanessa Siddle Walker reveals how African American educators became the ‘hidden provocateurs’ who spearheaded the push for racial justice in education.
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The Common App Will Stop Asking About Students’ Criminal Histories | The Atlantic
The change may be the biggest help to low-income students of color, who are disproportionately likely to have been convicted of a crime.
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Day First Woman to Earn Computer Science Ph.D. at N.C. A&T | North Carolina A&T University
Day, received her bachelor’s degree in computer science from Winston-Salem State University, where Elva Jones, one of the first black women to earn a doctorate in computer science, mentored her.
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Trump Administration Reverses Obama on Affirmative Action | The New York Times
The Trump administration will encourage the nation’s school superintendents and college presidents to adopt race-blind admissions standards, abandoning an Obama administration policy that called on universities to consider race as a factor in diversifying their campuses, administration officials said.
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How to prepare your kids for jobs that don’t exist yet | Fast Company
Artificial Intelligence will rule the jobs of the future, so learning how to work with it will be key. But the skills needed might not be what you expect.
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Alabama HBCU Apologizes 58 Years After Expelling 9 Students for Sit-In Protest | Atlanta Black Star
“What happened to these individuals, these students and the faculty, in my mind, is a crime.”
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Black higher education after the Civil War | The Weekly Challenger
In “From Slavery to Freedom: A History of Negro Americans,” initially published in 1947, John Hope Franklin and Alfred A. Moss, Jr., examined the history of Negro education during and after the Reconstruction era.
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The Radical Self-Reliance of Black Homeschooling | The Atlantic
Some black parents see teaching their own children as a way of protecting them from the racial disparities of the American education system.
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