Guest Blogger
Intern, White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans
Washington, D.C.
Andrene Jones-Castro is a graduate intern at the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans and is a doctoral student studying education policy at the University of Texas at Austin.
Sixty-two years ago this month, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ended segregation in public places and prohibited discrimination on…
There are very few spaces where women are affirmed and acknowledged as mothers, sisters, partners and leaders. There are even…
On Friday June 10, 2016, The White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans (WHIEEAA) in partnership with National…
“Mom, the kids at school said I act White,” my daughter told me one afternoon a few weeks ago. I asked her why. “Because I…
When Michelle Obama and her husband visited students of the Standing Rock Sioux Nation in North Dakota in the summer of 2014, she met students…
A couple weeks ago, I had one of those days. After writing a whole post about how nice my room is, a post that included…
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