Interrupting the Cycle of Violence
by Jennifer Morales This week, PBS stations across the country will be airing “The Interrupters,” a powerful documentary about a daring and intimate approach to stopping the cycle of neighborhood […]
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Michelle Alexander on The New Jim Crow and the school-to-prison pipeline
by Jody Sokolower Last spring I went to hear Michelle Alexander, the dynamic author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. She spoke to an […]
From the Archives: Unwrapping the Holidays
A recent conversation in a Facebook group I’m a part of centered on the celebration of the holiday, specifically Christmas. The conversation started with this: “My school is very, very […]