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For Immediate Release From The Obama Foundation! arlier this week, I wrote an open letter to librarians across America. https://barackobama.medium.com/thank-you-to-americas-librarians-for-prot

For Immediate Release From The White House! The promise of America is that we are all created equal in the image of God and deserve to be treated equally throughout our lives. While we’ve never f

For Immediate Release From White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities! The White House Initiative on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence, and Economic Opportunity

For Immediate Release From USDE! Last week, the Department of Education began notifying impacted borrowers they were eligible for automatic loan relief The U.S. Department of Education (D

Burned Out of Homes and History: Unearthing the Silenced Voices of the Tulsa Massacre Teaching Activity. By Linda Christensen. Rethinking Schools. 20 pages. Teaching about racist patterns of murde

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, ex

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading authority on housing

For Immediate Release From Assistant Democratic Leader Rep. James E. Clyburn! COLUMBIA, S.C. — Today, Congressman James E. Clyburn is pleased to announce South Carolina will receive $342,000

Elevate Your Consciousness Junious Ricardo Stanton “The ultimate e

Hastie, William Henry (1904-1976) WilliamHenry Hastie, attorney and diplomat, was born on November 17, 1904 in Knoxville, Tennessee. He spent his childhood in Tennessee until hisfamily moved to

July 19, 1919: White Mobs in Uniform Attack African Americans — Who Fight Back — in Washington, D.C. On Saturday, July 19, 1919 a major “race riot” broke out across Washington, D.C. as white mo

For Immediate Release From White House Initiative For Hispanics! On Thursday, July 20th from 12 p.m. - 5 p.m. EDT, the White House Initiative on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence and E