This article first appeared on the East Bay Solidarity Network site. Thanks to Solidarity members for permission to republish. Young service workers on the sanctity of small business. It was the first Friday of December, which in Oakland usually means hoards of people descending onto Telegraph Avenue for the monthly …
Speak Out has put together a resource page to help folks better understand this historic moment for racial justice and and to get involved. Asking, “Have you wondered what you might have done if you’d been around during the Civil Rights movement? Or if you had been active, what is …
by Bianca Licata First in a five-part series. With only three weeks left in the school year, and two weeks left of my student teaching, my mentor teacher—“Ms. Jones”—had just finished organizing all of her students’ files, making notes about their proclivity toward one subject or another, and their general …
by Bianca Licata Second in a Five-Part Series. In Part One of this series, we read about a white woman who did not allow her child the help he needed for his disability because it would stop him from attending a charter school. This child was two grade levels behind …
by Bianca Licata Third in a Five-Part Series. As described in Part Two of this series, “Teaching English Language Learners: History and Tensions,” by the 21st century the highly effective programs for English Language Learners (ELLs) had been largely dismantled. Students were left with a “hegemonic, English-only, homogenized curriculum… propagated …
by Bianca Licata Fifth in a Five-Part Series. The combination of anti-immigrant attitudes and policies, the dismantling of programs for English Language Learners, and the demands of No Child Left Behind into the context of Sonoma County’s demographics, where 42 percent of students are identified as Latino, and 22 percent …
A Five-Part Series by Bianca Licata Part One: White/Hispanic Segregation in Sonoma County Schools Part Two: No Child Left Behind Damages English Language Learners Programs Part Three: Current Struggles for English Language Learners Part Four: Teaching English Language Learners: History and Tensions Part Five: A Mother’s “Dilemma” and School Segregation …
In an effort to provide a context of facts for discussions on police violence in the United States, we gathered the following statistics, comparing four, industrialized, Western nations. We added information on the danger of various jobs, as we so often hear about the dangers police officers face on a …
by Z Recently, in a discussion about anti-racist work, we talked about how white “friends” seem to disappear when the topic turns to race. It is surprising to find out how much fear and taboo there is around this subject. What did your parents teach you about race? Were there …
Myth: 50% of Black men drop out of high school Fact: 12.1% of African-American males drop out of high school Fact: 33.2% of college age black men attend higher education Where did the myth of a 50% drop out rate for young black men come from? Why is there such …