Action Quote by Chaka Fattah

African American students have less access to algebra and more access to seclusion and restraint than do their white peers. The significant disparity in…

— Chaka Fattah

Teaching Black Studies, I find that students are quick to label a black person who has grown up in a predominantly white setting and…

— Bell Hooks

We need more male black teachers, tempting them with extra cash if necessary.

— Trevor Phillips

Young people are constantly absorbing - through media, textbooks, and policy - the myths of American exceptionalism; for black children, this means that what…

— Clint Smith

Higher minimum wages, full-employment programs, early-childhood education: Those kinds of programs are, by design, universal, but by definition, because they are helping folks who…

— Barack Obama

“Americans are generally incapable of perceiving class differences among blacks and are quick to ascribe antisocial underclass behavior to all African Americans.”

— Leon Dash

We know that African American students tend to be relational learners. It's about the relationships between a teacher and student. Students respond well to…

— Pedro Noguera

“Currently, “minority” students represent a majority in all but two of our twenty-five largest cities, and by some estimates, the turn of the century…

— Lisa Delpit

“An unwillingness to associate with blacks has long been considered a sign of lower-class closed-mindedness, but a 2006 study by Michael Emerson and David…

— Jared Taylor

There are those who contend that it does not benefit African-Americans to get them into the University of Texas where they do not do…

— Antonin Scalia

Teach the student what needs to be taught. 'Cause black and white kids both take shorts When one doesn't know about the other one's…

— KRS-One

In our schools, they're supposed to be taught to read and write and do mathematics. We are supposed to be teaching them about civics…

— Mark Robinson