Civil Rights Education

Education as a Civil Right? Interview With WNYC's Brian Lehrer on MLK Day Event at the Brooklyn Museum

Ellen Freudenheim | Posted 03.18.2012

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Ellen Freudenheim

Education was the theme of the jam-packed, sold-out, sixth annual MLK Day celebration at the Brooklyn Museum, In MLK's Footsteps: Education as a Civil Right, moderated by WNYC's Brian Lehrer.

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Civil Rights Education 'Dismal' Across The Country

The Huffington Post | Emmeline Zhao | Posted 11.30.2011

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"Dismal." Likely not a word ever preferred in an educational setting, but the description the Southern Poverty Law Center found appropriate to ass...

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Education Civil Rights Complaints On The Rise

AP | CHRISTINE ARMARIO | Posted 05.25.2011

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African American boys who are suspended at double and triple the rates of their white male peers. English language learners who, for years, remain in ...

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Years Before Brown v. Board Of Ed

latimes.com | Hector Tobar | Posted 05.25.2011

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It bothered Sandra Robbie that she didn't know. She'd grown up in 1970s Westminster, the daughter of a Mexican American family. She'd learned all ab...

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Droppin' Out: The Real American Crisis

Casey Gane-McCalla | Posted 05.25.2011

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Casey Gane-McCalla

For too many years Americans have fought against things: communism, drugs, poverty. Isn't it time to fight for something?

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