Henson stars as Ann Atwater, a Durham, North Carolina, activist who takes on the local head of the Klu Klux Klan in 1971.
Black females have played an historical role in the education arena, overcoming both racial and gender barriers to achieve extraordinary accomplishments.
(Newsweek) — School integration has vexed policymakers for more than a half-century. The Supreme Court ruled in 1954 that schools can’t keep kids out based on race, but in 2007 it ruled that schools can’t bring kids together based on race either. After the court struck down two race-based integration schemes in Seattle and Louisville, […]
An author details the splintering of Black communities in his new book.
(The Atlantic) — Is it possible that school desegregation actually hurt African American students? That’s the argument Stuart Buck advances in a new book called Acting White: The Ironic Legacy of Desegregation, sparking earnest debate among reviewers and bloggers.* He suggests that desegregation is part of the reason for the “acting white” phenomenon, part of […]