Why Listen
Are you passionate about education? Because Kelly Hurst is here to talk about equity in education. Almost every where I go, communities are wrestling with the realities of schools that privilege white students and harm students of color. Even though we are currently in a new normal for all of us- what will we do when our school building reopen? How will we be different?
Resources
The white teacher/savior trope: Dangerous Minds / Freedom Writers
Go Tell It On The Mountain by James Baldwin
Mendez V Westminster was the case that set precedent for Brown V Board of Education
Impact of Brown V Board of Education and the loss of 38,000 teachers
The activist life of Rosa Parks
The Montgomery Bus Boycott (as led by women!)
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they dont have any.” from Alice Walker as quoted in The Best Liberal Quotes Ever
Education is harming Black students: Still Separate, Still Unequal