Education Crisis
🚨Q: What is the current state of Black eighth-grade reading proficiency?
A: Only 17% of Black eighth graders can read at grade level, while over half don't meet even basic standards, indicating a systemic failure requiring immediate action.
New Niagara Movement
🔄Q: What is the New Niagara Movement and its inspiration?
A: The New Niagara Movement is a modern advocacy inspired by W.E.B. Du Bois and William Monroe Trotter's 1905 organization, calling for listening to Black voices in education and demanding immediate action.
Essential Truths
🔑Q: What are the five essential truths for empowering Black youth and communities?
A: The five truths are: self-determination and community power, identity and rigor, holistic support systems, youth agency and critical thinking, and systemic accountability.
Systemic Change
📊Q: What is the New Niagara Report?
A: The New Niagara Report is a comprehensive study of urgent issues in Black education for 2025, based on extensive research and stakeholder interviews, providing a roadmap for empowerment and systemic change.
Call to Action
🔥Q: How does the New Niagara Movement empower individuals to act?
A: It emphasizes that the spirit of change lives in everyday people and communities, encouraging them to be the system and the shift rather than waiting for external solutions.
