Schoolhouse: Equity In Education

CJSF’s Allison R. Brown speaks with Damon Hewitt, civil rights attorney & Director of the Executives’ Alliance for the Support of Boys & Men of Color, about equity in education, the Black lawyer’s role in fighting for justice, and finding moral clarity.

CJSF’s Allison R. Brown talks to Jonathan Stith (Alliance for Educational Justice) and Robert Spicer (Restorative Strategies LLC) about restorative practices in schools - how it is used to address conflict between students.

Join CJSF’s Allison R. Brown in a conversation with Kisha Bird, Director of Youth at CLASP (Center for Law and Social Policy), about public policy - what it really is, how it is changing today, and how communities can and should be involved in shaping it.

CJSF's Allison R. Brown talks with Rev. Dr. Delman Coates, President of the Black Church Center for Equality and Justice and Senior Pastor of Mt. Ennon Baptist Church, about the role of the Black church in today's justice movements.

CJSF's Allison R. Brown spends some time with organizers who are part of the Miami Black Girls Matter Coalition - Ruth Jeannoel (Power U Center for Social Change), Wakumi Douglas and Logan Meza (S.O.U.L. Sisters Leadership Collective).

CJSF’s Allison R. Brown talks to Ronald Simpson-Bey of JustLeadership USA about his work to end mass incarceration, his own powerful story, and the connections between criminal justice and education justice.

CJSF’s Allison R. Brown speaks with Rosie Balbaran of Coleman Advocates, Chandra Grayson of Families and Friends of Louisiana’s Incarcerated Children, and Juan Padilla of Communities United and VOYCE about their experiences traveling to Cuba as part of a health and justice delegation.

CJSF's Allison R. Brown speaks with Zakiya Sankara-Jabar, national field organizer for the Dignity in Schools Campaign, and Dr. Howard Stevenson, Director of Forward Promise, about their work to ensure the education of young Black boys.

CJSF’s Allison R Brown speaks with Keith Catone of the Annenberg Institute for School Reform about his new book (The Pedagogy of Teacher Activism) profiling four teacher activists, including Kari Kokka, who also joins the show.

CJSF’s Allison R. Brown speaks with Nat Chioke Williams of the Hill-Snowdon Foundation and Liz Sak of the Cricket Island Foundation about the role of philanthropy in supporting community-driven work in this moment in history.

CJSF’s Allison R. Brown speaks with Rashid Shabazz of the Campaign for Black Male Achievement about the assets that black men and boys are and the ways in which public narratives must be shifted to reflect their value.

CJSF’s Allison R. Brown speaks with Digital Undivided’s Darlene Gillard Jones, Jerome Hardaway of Vets Who Code and BLOC’s Aminah Yamusah about the social justice hackathon they designed for young people and the role of technology in eradicating inequity.

CJSF goes to the Women’s March on Washington. And Allison R. Brown speaks with Joanne Smith and Kate McDonough of Girls for Gender Equity about how their work to ensure equitable education for girls of color connects to the broader women’s right movement.

CJSF’s Allison R. Brown speaks with David Osher, Vice President and Institute Fellow at the American Institutes for Research, about social-emotional learning and its impact on students and teachers alike over the years.

CJSF’s Allison R. Brown speaks with Jitu Brown, National Director of the Journey 4 Justice Alliance, and Albert Sykes, Executive Director of IDEA (Institute for Democratic Education in America), about the next chapter in education justice organizing.

CJSF’s Allison R. Brown talks to Jacqueline Pata of the National Congress of American Indians about the protests at Standing Rock, the Dakota Access Pipeline, and what it all means for equity, sovereignty, and freedom.

CJSF’s Allison R. Brown talks with Dr. Natalie Hopkinson, Assistant Professor at Howard University and Fellow at the Interactivity Foundation, about how slavery’s legacy manifests today.

CJSF’s Allison R. Brown speaks with a roundtable of parent organizers about how parents and families are using their powers for good, working proactively to make their schools work for their children and the nation's children.

CJSF’s Allison R. Brown speaks with Dr. John H. Jackson, President and CEO of the Schott Foundation for Public Education, about the recent elections and what the new state of the world will be on January 20, 2017.

CJSF’s Allison R. Brown speaks with Andrew Grant-Thomas, co-founder of Embrace Race, an organization that helps equip parents with the tools they need to talk to their kids about race.