school integration
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Issa Rae Is Producing a Comedy Series Based on a Podcast About Well-Meaning White Folks and School Integration
Issa Rae is continuing her “No Sleep” tour and has another project in the works! According to Variety, Issa has teamed up with writer-director-producer Adam McKay to produce a half-hour comedy series for HBO, adapted from the Serial Productions podcast Nice White Parents. Issa will executive produce with Montrel McKay under her new production company…
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As I Say, Not as I Do: Parents of All Backgrounds Say They Want Diverse Schools, but Their Choices Are Still Rooted in Bias
Privileged parents say they want their children to attend integrated schools—but their choices tell a different story. That’s what a study published by Harvard Graduate School of Education this week reveals. As the education blog The 74 reports, the new study found across all demographics, parents tended to agree that racial and economic integration in…
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New Statistics Highlight How New York City’s Most Elite Public Schools Are Leaving Black Students Behind
Offers to black students at New York City’s elite public schools are dropping—and the numbers are absolutely dismal. On Monday, only seven black students were offered admission to Stuyvesant High School, the most selective school in the city, out of 895 potential slots, the New York Times reports. Just as concerning: the number of admissions…
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64 Years After Brown v. Board of Education, Integration Has Not Helped Black People
Today, May 17, marks the 64th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education (1954), an event many have called a watershed moment in civil rights. On this day, more than six decades ago, the U.S. Supreme Court held that “separate but equal” facilities, as had been decided by Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), are inherently unequal…