Slavery, Jim Crow laws and COVID-19 all have contributed to a yawning gap between white public school students and students of color. While the 1950s Supreme Court decision known as Brown v. Board of Education was supposed to correct “separate but equal,” there is still a long way to go before public schools can talk about equity. Mary C. Curtis talks with Terra Wallin of the Education Trust to understand how we arrived at this moment and how the nation’s public schools can do better.

Show Notes:

• ‘The intrinsic value of whiteness’
• Who is afraid of critical race theory?
• Why do Black American women die having babies?
• USDA and Black farmers
• “We can’t give in to Jan. 6”