The Taking Freedom book series, a collaboration between The Social Justice Foundation, the Service Employees International Union's Racial Justice Center, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Community Innovators Lab (CoLab), is intended to address a wide range of issues, from housing rights, to debt burden, to police reform, and more.
On August 1st, five black students in satiny green and red robes and mortar boards waited inside an elementary school classroom, listening for their names to be called as graduates of Normandy High School. The ceremony was held months after the school's main graduation for students who had been short of credits or had opted not to participate earlier.
One of those graduating that day was Michael Brown. He was 18, his mother's oldest son. He was headed to college in the fall.
Eight days later, Brown was dead—killed in the streets of nearby Ferguson, Missouri, by a white police officer in a shooting that ignited angry protests and another round of painful national debate about race, policing, and the often elusive matter of justice.
[For more on this story by NIKOLE HANNAH-JONES, go to https://psmag.com/social-justi...m-school-segregation]
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