Race and Equity

Black Americans experienced 1.6 million excess deaths compared to White population over 22-year period, study findsDespite efforts to reduce health disparities, a new study is calling attention to drastic differences in mortality rates among Black Americans compared to the White population.

CDC data shows rise in maternal mortality and deaths of Black infants in U.S.The CDC released two reports about mortality rates for mothers and babies in America and they include some stark racial divides. New mothers are dying at higher rates than mothers in any other industrialized nation. And while the overall rate of infants dying is at record lows, the deaths of Black infants spiked during the pandemic. William Brangham explores the trends with two of the researchers.

Black communities account for disproportionate number of Covid-19 deaths in the US, study finds | CNNThere’s new evidence more African Americans may be dying from coronavirus in the United States than whites or other ethnic groups, according to a new study.

The Child Opportunity Gap

Making Black Lives Matter at School | NEAThree community activists offer questions for reflection on how to make Black lives matter in the classroom, at school, and in the community.

Freedom Schools - SNCC Digital GatewayIn the spring of 1964, SNCC created the Freedom School curriculum, which was rooted in the lives of young Black Mississippians. It had been designed by a...

Tribal Land Acknowledgements - What they Are and Why We Need to Do Them — Embracing EquityBy Claudia A. Fox Tree 8-min read If you are not bringing Indigenous voices into the conversation, then you are not doing anti-racism, decolonizing, or fighting colonialism. Stories of Indigenous history, current events, and people need to be told. These stories need to be prioritized .

Systemic Racism in the USOver the past year, Americans have taken to the streets to protest racial injustice and inequality. Here’s how racism persists through US policies and institutions.

We Ignore the Pain of Black Children (Opinion)We need to stop criminalizing Black children. And that starts with how we view school safety, writes pediatrician Rebekah Fenton.

Becoming an anti-racist educator: where to begin? (GUEST POST) - The Comprehensible ClassroomBecoming an anti-racist educator: where to begin? - In this post, Elicia Cárdenas offers suggestions grounded in her own experience to teachers that want to actively and intentionally fight racism.

The race gapHow U.S. systemic racism plays out in Black lives

Culturally Responsive Teaching & The BrainAuthor Zaretta Hammond shares how to best serve all students in the classroom by building relationships that support culturally responsive teaching.

The Race Gap in America’s Police DepartmentsHundreds of police departments across the nation have forces with a white percentage that is more than 30 percentage points higher than the communities they serve.

1.5 Million Missing Black MenAcross the country, hundreds of thousands of black men are missing from everyday life.

The Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated the United States - Zinn Education ProjectBy Richard Rothstein Racial segregation characterizes every metropolitan area in the United States and bears responsibility for our most serious social and economic problems — it corrupts our criminal justice system, exacerbates economic inequality, and produces large academic gaps between white and African American schoolchildren. We’ve taken no serious steps to desegregate neighborhoods, however, because we are hobbled by a national myth that residential segregation is de facto — the result of private discrimination or personal choices that do not violate constitutional rights.

How the #DisruptTexts Movement Can Help English Teachers Be More Inclusive | KQEDThe dominance of white-authored texts in school curriculum makes it hard for students of color and those in underrepresented groups to connect with the stories. The #DisruptTexts movement seeks to guide educators to develop a more inclusive and relevant canon.

What Anti-racist Teachers Do DifferentlyThey view the success of black students as central to the success of their own teaching.

How unintentional but insidious bias can be the most harmfulNational attention has been focused on overt racial tensions on college campuses across the country. But what about smaller, subtle, more persistent forms of racism? Special correspondent Charlayne Hunter-Gault speaks to Derald Wing Sue of Teachers College at Columbia University about the ways that everyday “microaggressions” can affect people.

Extensive Data Shows Punishing Reach of Racism for Black BoysA study of 20 million children shows the fragility of the American Dream.

Eight Lessons for Talking About Race, Racism, and Racial JusticeGuidance for how to have those difficult conversations about race, racism, and racial justice in this country.

How Red Lines Built White Wealth: A Lesson on Housing Segregation in the 20th Century - Zinn Education ProjectTeaching Activity. By Ursula Wolfe-Rocca. Rethinking Schools. The mixer role play is based on Richard Rothstein’s The Color of Law, which shows in exacting detail how government policies segregated every major city in the United States with dire consequences for African Americans.

Systemic Racism in Health Care | theSkimmPeople of color face a disproportionate level of health risk compared to white people in the US. We’ve broken down some of the numbers and reasons why there’s such a gap.

Black workers have made no progress in closing earnings gaps with white men since 2000This week, the Census Bureau released its report on incomes, earnings, and poverty rates for 2017. Most analysis has paid particular attention to the changes between 2016 and 2017, but this post takes a deeper look at earnings by race and gender over a longer period of time—since 2000—to paint a more complete picture of what…

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Only 7 Black Students Got Into Stuyvesant, N.Y.’s Most Selective High School, Out of 895 SpotsThe tiny number of black students offered admission to New York City’s elite public high schools adds pressure on officials to confront the challenge of integrating those schools.

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OPINION: Ethnic Studies Could Dismantle Systemic Racism in Our Schoolsby Ari Robin McKenna As fresh droves of people grapple more seriously with the slippery concept of systemic racism, now is the time to support the efforts of educators working to mainstream antirac…

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