Book-banning, attacks on Critical Race Theory, Black Studies and Queer Studies, the use of state violence to repress dissent—we are experiencing a furious backlash against modest steps to make education accessible to all children and youth. How should a broad movement for educational justice be framed and forged?
Davarian Baldwin is the Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of American Studies at Trinity College, and the author of In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities are Plundering Our Cities.
Jesse Hagopian has taught in the public schools for over 20 years, serves on the Black Lives Matter at School steering committee, organizes for the Zinn Education Project, and founded the Ethnic Studies course at Seattle’s Garfield High School. He is an editor for Rethinking Schools... Read More →
Barbara Ransby, historian, writer, professor, author of Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement, longtime Black Left feminist activist, and founding member of Scholars for Social Justice.
David Stovall is a professor in the Department of Black Studies and in the Department of Criminology, Law and Justice at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
