Schoolhouse: Equity In Education

CJSF’s Allison R. Brown speaks with Karyn Parsons who played wealthy Hilary on the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Karyn and Allison talk about Karyn's latest project, Sweet Blackberry, and her passion to share with the world the wealth that is Black history.

CJSF’s Allison R. Brown speaks with Jim Freeman and Ricardo Martinez about their new report The $3.4 Trillion Mistake exposing the money trail that created mass incarceration and about the concrete changes needed to fix the broken system.

CJSF’s Allison R. Brown speaks with community leaders who describe protest actions of late walk-ins, 150-mile walks, a youth-led candidate forum to #ReclaimOurSchools.

CJSF’s Allison R. Brown speaks with members of the Dignity in Schools Coalition, which recently released a set of recommendations for schools to remove law enforcement officers from school buildings.

CJSF’s Allison R. Brown speaks with Marc Bayard of the Lee Bayard Group about putting a face to the racial justice movement through #SayTheirNames, a multimedia project working with grieving families to celebrate the lives of police brutality victims.

CJSF’s Allison R. Brown speaks with Voices of Youth in Chicago Education (VOYCE) about their instrumental role in the passage of a historic state law that makes suspensions and expulsions a last resort.

CJSF’s Allison R. Brown chats with Rev. Starsky Wilson, President and CEO of the Deaconess Foundation in St. Louis, a pastor at St. John’s Church, and former co-chair of the Ferguson Commission, about faith and philanthropy in his radical giving.

CJSF’s Allison R. Brown talks with Dr. Micah Gilmer, a Senior Partner at Frontline Solutions, and Riki Wilchins, Executive Director of True Child, about their report on society’s expectations of Black manhood and how they’re detrimental to men’s health.

CJSF’s Allison R. Brown speaks with Deepa Iyer, author of We Too Sing America, and Fahd Ahmed, Executive Director of DRUM: Desis Rising Up & Moving, about the value in building solidarity as we charge toward authentic and long-lasting change.

CJSF’s Allison R. Brown speaks with Eric Mann, Director of the Labor Community Strategy Center in L.A., and Ashley Franklin, the center’s Community Rights Organizer, about the 1033 program and divest-invest strategies used in L.A. and across the U.S.

CJSF’s Allison R. Brown interviews Adam Levner, Founder and Executive Director of Critical Exposure, and Breianna, a student member, about Critical Exposure’s use of the arts to organize, advocate, and create long-lasting change.

CJSF’s Allison R. Brown speaks with Dr. Monique W. Morris, about her book Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools which explores the individual and institutional forces that serve as barriers to opportunity for Black girls in school.

CJSF’s Allison R. Brown speaks with Hiram Rivera, Executive Director of the Philadelphia Student Union, and Kyla, a student member, about the growing police presence in schools and the often tragic results.