Defunding or altogether eliminating Black studies will surely exacerbate racialized persistence and experiential and student outcomes inequities on predominantly white campuses.

Friday, May 1, 4:00PM: Join the New York City Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO; New York Immigration Coalition; union & community members from across the City to commemorate International Workers Day! ...

After a Manhattan parent’s racist comment sparked widespread outrage, Chancellor Kamar Samuels promised anti-racism training for families and greater access to Black Studies curriculum.

Learn more about our history of racial injustice.

The social democrat politician was accompanied by Puerto Rican congresswoman Nydia Velázquez as he arrived at the SOMOS conference

📍 Where: Duarte Square, 6th Ave, and Canal 📅 When: October 18, 2025, at 11 AM NOTE: this will be a march, not a rally! This is a labor feeder march that will start from a different location in Southw...

Author :Zebulon Vance Miletsky Title: Before Busing: A History of Boston’s Long Black Freedom Struggle Publication Info: The University of North Carolina Press (2022) Summary/Review: The busi…

Published on March 2, 2025

2/27/2025 To close out our observation of Black History Month, Rivers hosted Speaker Dr. Zebulon Miletsky, an associate professor in Africana Studies & History at Stony Brook University, to present at all-school assembly on February 24 and visit Grade 8 humanities classrooms. Miletsky supplemented additional month-long programming by student leaders of the SHADES affinity group surrounding the theme of Black Excellence.

For the second time this year, the US Supreme Court opted against weighing in on policies that use geographic proxies for race to allow more Black and Latino students to enroll in competitive high sch...

Boston schools are more segregated now than than they were 30 years ago. Did integration fail, or did the people?

For many in Boston, the story of “busing” begins in September 1974 with the explosive clash over mandatory desegregation of the city’s public schools. In the barrage of electrifying news reports, with...

Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS) is a monthly discussion series held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Curated by Jeanne Theoharis and Robyn C. Spencer-Antoine with K...

The year 2024 marks fifty years since a federal court order was issued by US Judge W. Arthur Garrity mandating school desegregation in Boston which resulted in busing.

The disappearance of bus service is hurting kids around the country.

Court-ordered desegregation worked. But white racism made it hard to accept.

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