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Hip Hop Commentary on the Prison System: An Unrecognized Antecedent to" The New Jim Crow
You ain't gotta be locked up to be in prisonLook how we livin, thirty thousand niggas a dayUp in the bing, standard routineThey put us in a box just like our life on the blockDead Prez “Behind Enemy Lines” When Michelle Alexander published The New Jim Crow several years ago, many people were shocked to discover the devastating impact that the drug war and mass incarceration had on Black commun
MAR 20
How Hip Hop Crosses Cultural Boundaries: An Afternoon and Evening with the Bronx Berlin Connection
What an afternoon and evening yesterday with the young people from the Bronx-Berlin Connection and the great program organizers Olad Aden andFabian Farbeon Saucedo! It reminded me of the power of hip hop culture- and the arts, generally- to cross boundaries of language and national origin and unite young people across the globe. The day began with me giving a talk on the role of the Bronx as an in
MAR 18
The Other Wave of School Closings: How the Shutting of Catholic Schools in the Inner City Paved the Way for Charters
Many people have praised charter schools as providing a safe alternative for inner city families to public schools, implying they are creating something that never existed before. However, that is not exactly true. During the 1960's, 1970's, and 1980's, when inner city communities were hit by a wave of factory closings, drug epidemics, housing abandonment and middle class flight, families looking
MAR 14
When It Comes to Education Policy- It's All About the Benjamins
One question we have to ask ourselves is how many of the policies we are fighting, from Common Core, to test based teacher evaluation, to school closings and charter school preferences, would have gotten any traction were it not from the support they have gotten from a small group of people whose wealth has reached unprecedented proportions because of changes in tax laws, deregulation of the finan
Why Charters Can't Always Be Trusted to Serve Inner City Communities
Henry Louis Taylor · Buffalo, NY · This is about Betrayal The struggle to regenerate the East Side is a protracted fight, which requires tireless dedication. In the late 1980s, a group of Buffalo residents and concerned citizens saved the St. Mary of Sorrows Catholic Church from being turned down and transformed it into a community center, early learning school, and neighborhood anchor institution
