Carla Shedd
Author of @UnequalCity. Sociologist of Race, Education, Law, Urban Policy, & the Carceral Continuum. Assoc. Prof. of Urban Educ & Soc @GC_CUNY.
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‘Appalling’ Video Shows the Police Yanking 1-Year-Old From His Mother’s Arms (Published 2018)
An incident involving a woman in a Brooklyn food stamp office has led to a social media outcry for an explanation from the Police Department.
NYC Teachers Looking At Holiday Travel To Virus Hotspots Must Self-Isolate Upon Return, State Says
The upcoming holidays are raising questions on in-person staffing.
A Latinx scholar describes the challenges she confronted seeking tenure (opinion) | Inside Higher Ed
Daisy Verduzco Reyes shares some of her own experiences to help reveal the institutionalized patterns and practices that people of color must often navigate.
The Spirit Writing of Lucille Clifton
Despite her fame as a poet, Clifton’s trajectory as a self-described “two-headed woman” is a little-known part of her legacy.
Scholars talk about being Black on campus in 2020
Scholars discuss what it’s like to be a Black professor in 2020, who should be doing antiracist work on campus and why diversity interventions that attempt to “fix” Black academics for a rigged game miss the point entirely.
Is Trump Really That Racist? : Code Switch
We know his rhetoric has been described as boundary-breaking when it comes to race. But U.S. presidents have been enacting racist policies forever. So as President Trump wraps up his first (and maybe only) term in office, we're asking: In terms of...
How Saidiya Hartman Retells the History of Black Life
The scholar’s provocative writing illuminates stories that have long gone untold.
Toni Morrison: In Her Own Words
‘Cinderella’s Stepsisters,’ her poignant commencement address to the Barnard Class of 1979, is just as insightful today as it was then
LeBron James continues to expand our concept of excellence
Dear LeBron Raymone James, Congratulations on winning your fourth title, a title many Americans did not want you to win for reasons that reveal just as much abo…
The Blackpoll Warbler: Tiny Bird, Amazing Migrator
New research confirms that this songbird’s migration is one of the longest out there—and it may be in danger. Here’s how to help.
RTE EP 2: Inherently Unequal - A Closer Look at School Segregation in NYC by Race Through Education • A podcast on Anchor
We all know the famous Brown V. Board case. We all know that it was suppose to desegregate schools legally. Everyone talks about the South but not enough is discussed what happened in the North. In this episode of Race Through Education, we speak to...
This speech changed the course of black voting rights in America
Fannie Lou Hamer was ‘sick and tired of being sick and tired,’ and she told the 1964 Democratic National Convention
CHANGE: Making Education More Equitable
Watch the event "Making Education More Equitable," recorded live on Zoom on September 30, 2020. Longstanding inequalities in America’s education system have ...