2024年10月30日 · ATLANTA – Seventy years following the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision, many Black students across the nation still do not have access to equitable educational opportunities in early childhood, K-12, or higher education compared with other students, a new Southern Education Foundation (SEF) report shows.

2023年10月2日 · Raising free Black children is an act of resistance and of love—and it requires Black parents to ensure our own fears are not in the way.

Analyses of drawings and interviews from 12 focal children demonstrate how Black youth: 1) articulated career aspira-tions through Africentric values related to Black self-determination, collective uplift and personal interests; and 2) perceived familial and community support for career aspirations as nurturing relation-ships, specialized career...

Freedom Schools were temporary, alternative, and free schools for African Americans mostly in the South. They were originally part of a nationwide effort during the Civil Rights Movement to organize African Americans to achieve social, political and economic equality in the United States.

2023年6月28日 · The Freedom Schools of the 1960s were part of a long line of efforts to liberate people from oppression using the tool of popular education, including secret schools in the 18th and 19th centuries for enslaved Africans; labor schools during the early 20th century; and the Citizenship Schools formed by Septima Clark and others in the 1950s.

2020年10月14日 · In the spring of 1963, Black children in Birmingham, Alabama marched for racial equality. They marched daily for almost a week in a movement that reinvigorated the fight against segregation.

1 天前 · Honoring Black history and futures. Every Black History Month, we're met with the usual images of Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks, and the like. These extraordinary heroes have undeniably shaped the world we live in today, laying the groundwork for social justice and freedom.

2024年9月10日 · It tells the story of how Black people—both enslaved and free—found ways to protect and nurture these children using the laws and politics of their state, and how “this rising generation” of children eventually changed the United States itself.

2020年2月3日 · Black children today fight to define their own futurity beyond the myth of low aspirations – a dominant societal ideology which limits Black success to careers in professional sports and entertainment and blames Black families and communities for devaluing education.