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It’s Time We Teach Students About Economic Hardship
It’s Time We Teach Students About Economic Hardship
Partner Feature: Cascading Lives: Stories of Loss, Resilience & Resitance
Raikes Foundation
Apr 29, 2022
This Women’s History Month, Let’s Commit to Putting More Books by Black Women on School…
This Women’s History Month, Let’s Commit to Putting More Books by Black Women on School…
This past winter, I was saddened to read about the death of bell hooks, the trailblazing author and activist who pushed feminism to include…
Tricia Raikes
Mar 30, 2022
Bad For Business: How ‘Critical Race Theory’ Bans Are Limiting American Progress
Bad For Business: How ‘Critical Race Theory’ Bans Are Limiting American Progress
Earlier this month, 400 books were pulled off the shelves across a Texas school district in response to a new law limiting how educators…
Jeff Raikes
Dec 19, 2021
Housing is a Human Right: A Conversation with Amanda Andere
Housing is a Human Right: A Conversation with Amanda Andere
Our country is facing one of the most severe affordable housing crises in history. According to the National Low Income Housing Coalition…
Dennis Quirin
Nov 4, 2021
Building Anti-Racist Schools Amidst Backlash: A Conversation with Kathleen Osta
Building Anti-Racist Schools Amidst Backlash: A Conversation with Kathleen Osta
Orchestrated backlash against Critical Race Theory threatens an honest accounting of our country’s history in schools.
Raikes Foundation
Oct 25, 2021
The Census Is Speaking To Us: Will We Listen?
The Census Is Speaking To Us: Will We Listen?
The 2020 Census tells us what we already knew: the country is diverse and continuing to diversify at a rapid rate — in urban, suburban…
Jeff Raikes
Oct 1, 2021
The Power of Transformative Youth Organizing: A Conversation with Taryn Ishida
The Power of Transformative Youth Organizing: A Conversation with Taryn Ishida
Taryn Ishida is the leader of Californians for Justice, a youth-powered organization dedicated to fighting for racial equity in…
Dennis Quirin
Sep 22, 2021
Hope and Clarity: A conversation about young people and Ferguson with Rev. Dr. Starsky Wilson
Hope and Clarity: A conversation about young people and Ferguson with Rev. Dr. Starsky Wilson
The Rev. Dr. Starsky Wilson, a national thought leader in racial justice, community organizing, and movement building, was then-president…
Dennis Quirin
Aug 19, 2021
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