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Pain, Anger, and Confusion at the NAACP Hearing on Quality Education in New Orleans

The NAACP's nation-touring 'education task force' recently held their penultimate (6th of 7) hearing on quality education in New Orleans. The hearing, which took...

NAACP Hearing Reveals Unsurprising Rift Over Charter Schools

The battle of wills between charter school advocates and opponents continued last Thursday, February 9th, at the NAACP’s special hearing on charter schools in...

Takeaways From the NAACP Task Force’s ‘Quality Education’ Hearing in Orlando.

On Friday, January 27th, the NAACP continued their series of education hearings, held by a special task force to "to gain further knowledge, engage...

Did that whole NAACP charter school moratorium thing really happen?

This will carbon date me, but there is a famous piece of art created in 1986 called “Return To Camelot,” where an entire previous...

I love my elders in the NAACP. I love my children more.

It's bittersweet. I'm heading home from the NAACP's national convention having enjoyed being with a large gathering of wonderful people, mostly elders, who are among the...

Tenicka Boyd: I can’t imagine a world where the NAACP would say ‘let’s pause’...

Tenicka Boyd, a New York based education activist and long-standing member of the NAACP, testifies on behalf of families who are well-served by charter...

NAACP’s Charter School Task Force Meets Resistance in Los Angeles

Hands off our charter schools! That was the message delivered to the NAACP by charter parents, students and educators in an outdoor press conference ahead...

NAACP: Who Exactly Are You Working to Advance When You Ignore Black Parents?

By Khulia Pringle It is my prayer that the NAACP hearing on their charter school moratorium happening today in Los Angeles goes far better than...

Hey NAACP, Black Parents Want Quality Education Schools for Their Kids By Any Means...

By Khulia Pringle With the recent moratorium on Charter schools by the NAACP coupled with my trip to Memphis, Tennessee  for a public hearing held...

When leaders stop hearing the people, they’re not leaders anymore

by Citizen Stewart On one particularly reflective night Rev. Martin Luther King reportedly told two of his parishioners, both black educators, that the black community...