You are more than one race?
R.E.A.L. Talk, High Tech Middle Media Arts, 7th Grade Trailblazer Before this project I didn’t know much about race or racism, but then I figured...
Race conversation is hard; do it
R.E.A.L. Talk, High Tech Middle Media Arts, 7th Grade Trailblazer Growing up I never encountered racism. I use to think everyone had the privilege to...
Black Is Just An Insecure Label
R.E.A.L. Talk, High Tech Middle Media Arts, 7th Grade Trailblazer To me race is just a made up way to put people in groups, based...
East Shore, White Shore: Segregation lives
Samuel P. Wilcock, Mechanicsburg, PA. Messiah College, Faculty. Just look at race by census track. The “West Shore” is over 90% white pretty much all...
I still cry 51 years later.
Dana, Cincinnati, OH. I still cry 51 years later after segregation. I still cry for the 300 years of slavery.
My generation should know better
Ann Marie USA I didn’t understand how much racism still existed in America until I moved to Missouri for college. As a white female, second...
Segregation will never stop impacting us
Lisandra, Boston, MA. Race is not something simple but complex issues with opinion and facts.
WE ARE ONE RACE, CALLED HUMANITY
Louis Lares, Riverside, CA. We must end racial segregation, and racial diversity. We ARE ALL HUMANS. Not different just because of color.
‘There Goes the Neighborhood: 1950-2050’
Margaret Denney, Snata Fe, NM. These images are details from my piece ‘There Goes the Neighborhood: 1950-2050’, addressing segregation in housing as well as changing...
“Black Only” Events perpetuate the segregation
Giovanna, Atlanta, GA. I am a second generation American Jew (meaning none of my family members ever owned another human being) I was raised to...
When good men do nothing…
Courtney Elizabeth Columbus, OH I get really bothered when white people say “but I didn’t own slaves!” or “my ancestors weren’t here during America’s beginnings.”...
Democracy and segregation cannot co-exist. We all suffer.
Lee Anne Bell New York , NY As a white person in this country I am disgusted by the lack of public will to challenge...
Economic segregation will add to problem
KL Anderson Colorado Springs, CO Educational disparity has long been a racial card, but it’s one the sinking middle class is now being dealt, too....
Integration: equity and opportunity for all
Rob Breymaier Oak Park, IL We hear so much about how segregation harms people and communities. We don’t hear enough about how integration improves everyone’s...
school segregation still sickening suffocating success
Maureen Curran New York City, NY Staten Island The words by the Jacob Lawrence poster talking about people in Brooklyn in 1962 calling for school...
Segregation is bad. It’s not good.
Eva Gross New York City, NY Staten Island I am learning about segregation in first grade. Black people back then were made to do all...
