Black Lives: Agents of Change. Failing schools versus community education in America

See more Black Lives series here – https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBRLKmBip431NY_yQIbTekXjzr6C8FbM9 In Black America, children are often raised in run-down areas, surrounded by crime. Local schools are underfunded and do not give students the skills to break the cycle of drugs-violence-jail. But the community is now finding its own solutions to this education crisis. In Philadelphia, high school […]

How Black High School Students Are Hurt by Modern-Day Segregation | NowThis

Students at Block High School in Jonesville, Louisiana, are still facing segregation and inequality every day at school, more than 50 years after Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement. » Subscribe to NowThis: http://go.nowth.is/News_Subscribe More than 50 years after Brown v. Board of Education ended school segregation at American high schools and […]