Olatunde Johnson Brown anniversaries have a familiar cadence. We celebrate Brown v. Board of Education—the stunning work of lawyers to undo the legality of “separate but equal” and advance desegregation in education and public life—and yet we also lament how much work remains to achieve meaningful equality in schools and beyond. Brown often seems to exist more in principle … [Read more...] about Reclaiming Brown’s Remedial Principle (January-April 2024 P & R Article)
Civil Rights History
Brown v. Board of Education: The Soul of Our Multiracial Democracy (January-April 2024 P & R Article)
Jin Hee Lee, Sarah Seo, and Hamida Labi Seven decades have passed since the United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled, in Brown v. Board of Education, that Black people must be treated as equal persons deserving of the full rights of citizenship under the law. A crowning achievement for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), Brown was the culmination … [Read more...] about Brown v. Board of Education: The Soul of Our Multiracial Democracy (January-April 2024 P & R Article)
For All of Our Children: Justice Thurgood Marshall’s Faith in Integration Is Still Right (January-April 2024 P & R Article)
Rachel D. Godsil, Linda R. Tropp, and Kim Forde-Mazrui We deal here with the right of all of our children, whatever their race, to an equal start in life and to an equal opportunity to reach their full potential as citizens. –Justice Thurgood Marshall, dissenting, Milliken v. Bradley (1974), p.783. Introduction Justice Thurgood Marshall was convinced that, for all … [Read more...] about For All of Our Children: Justice Thurgood Marshall’s Faith in Integration Is Still Right (January-April 2024 P & R Article)
Past, Present, and Future: Making and Unmaking the School-Prison Nexus (April – July 2023 P&R Journal)
Sign up for PRRAC’s biweekly newsletter here. Excerpted from Poverty & Race, Volume 32, No.2 (April – July 2023) Matthew B. Kautz When I began my teaching career in Detroit, I entered my co-located high school with excitement about all the curricular possibilities. However, within days, it became painfully clear the school’s approach to discipline dominated the … [Read more...] about Past, Present, and Future: Making and Unmaking the School-Prison Nexus (April – July 2023 P&R Journal)
Resource Equity, Desegregation, and Fulfilling the Promise of Brown (April – July 2023 P&R Journal)
Sign up for PRRAC’s biweekly newsletter here. Excerpted from Poverty & Race, Volume 32, No.2 (April – July 2023) Saba Bireda and Ary Amerikaner Policies that allocate resources to schools and policies that assign children to schools are clearly and deeply interconnected. Brown v. Board of Education’s decree that separate is inherently unequal was premised on the … [Read more...] about Resource Equity, Desegregation, and Fulfilling the Promise of Brown (April – July 2023 P&R Journal)
