Jewél Jackson
Investigative and Education Reporter at Better Government Association
Investigative and Education Reporter at Illinois Answers Project
Investigative, Education Reporter @IllinoisAnswers @BetterGov • Exes @elpasomatters @KentuckyCIR @WFPLNews • she/her/hers • Hit me up [email protected]
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1 month ago |
southsideweekly.com | Jewél Jackson
At the Chicago Justice Gallery, over one hundred names of Black Americans who have died from police brutality since the 1980s are listed on a wall as part of an ongoing photo exhibition, Echoes of Ferguson, at the University of Illinois, Chicago. Last Thursday, that wall was projected with pictures of Breonna Taylor, a twenty-six-year-old Black woman who was killed in her sleep after Louisville Metro police executed a no-knock warrant on her apartment.
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2 months ago |
capitalbnews.org | Jewél Jackson
It had been over a year since Carla and Byron Scott’s 10-year-old son, Tyler, was diagnosed with ADHD, autism, and adjustment disorder. The couple questioned whether Tyler’s teachers in Portsmouth, Virginia, knew how to care for his disabilities, or if they would simply pass him through grades even if he performed poorly in school. Then, the couple came across a social media post, and their world changed.
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2 months ago |
thetriibe.com | Jewél Jackson
On Tuesday, students gathered at Malcolm X College on the Near West Side to discuss the importance of local labor movements with alders from the 4th, 33rd, 46th and 49th wards. “Where capitalism has run unchecked, labor ends up being such a key component to a fair democratic process,” Ald Maria Hadden (49th Ward) said.
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2 months ago |
thetriibe.com | Jewél Jackson
Chicago native Eve L. Ewing is dropping her new book, Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism. In it, the University of Chicago professor and cultural organizer illuminates the deep historical ways the American education system upholds hierarchies of race. “For both of our peoples, both of these histories are about control. It’s about subjugation.
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2 months ago |
capitalbnews.org | Jewél Jackson
Call it a Freedom School for the social media age. Hundreds of Black professors are making their classes available to the public for free on TikTok. Just as their analog predecessors sought to teach African American children through an informal network of Black-led classrooms beginning in the 1960s, this digital version attempts to broaden the community’s collective knowledge through online videos. Meredith D.
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