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…
Today at President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’s inauguration, Amanda Gorman stole the show. Lady Gaga? J-Lo? Garth Brooks? No contest. This 22-year-old…
November 2016, I walked into my school building to students blocking their peers from coming through my classroom door. They said, “We’re building a wall,…
Chicago Public Schools students are back in school. Well, some of them are. It’s complicated, and getting messier by the minute. WBEZ Chicago has more…
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