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Diversity

Our Kids Flourish at a Diversity-by-Design School

We are three mothers of biracial children. When exploring what K-12 should look like for our kids, we knew that diversity and academic performance needed to be top priorities. As we looked at the...

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The Suffragettes Were Not Allies to Black Women, They Were Racist

This week, America celebrated the 105th anniversary of the 19th Amendment's passage and ratification, which granted women the right to vote. However, like much of American history, the words in our...

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‘So Many Threats to Kids’: ICE Fear Grips Los Angeles At Start of New School Year

The night before school, Adriana Abich always gets nervous. Nervous there won’t be enough school supplies for new students, or that classrooms won’t be quite ready. But this year is different. This...

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How the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill Act’ Betrays Black America

My grandmother’s doctor visits are not political. The cost of my monthly prescriptions doesn’t care if the Senate swings red or blue. And yet, both are now caught in the crosshairs of one of the most...

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Independence Day Is Still Unfinished Business for Black Students

Every year, the Fourth of July arrives wrapped in red, white, and blue Americana—a spectacle of fireworks, parades, and proclamations of freedom. But for Black Americans, this national celebration is...

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Independence Has Always Been a Day Late and a Dollar Short for Black People, But Schools Can Change That

Ed Note: This post was originally published in 2023. What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? ~ Frederick Douglass On June 19, 1865, two years after Lincoln signed the Emancipation...

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