Mississippi organizers and education justice advocates reflect on the long struggle to end Mississippi’s school-to-prison pipeline and discuss police-free schools, abolition, and the radical imagination necessary to win education justice in Mis

SchoolHouse: Mississippi Roots of Education Justice (part 2)

Aug 2nd, 2020 44m 58s

SchoolHouse: Global Education Justice in a Dual Pandemic of Virus and Racism

Jun 19th, 2020 57m 20s

(CJSF) hosts a town-hall style discussion of the global movement for education justice in this coronavirus moment. Organizers from South Africa, Puerto Rico, Toronto, and Honduras share their perspectives about the education justice movement.

SchoolHouse: Educating with Love, on Principle

Dec 21st, 2019 55m 7s

During a visit to Kimball Elementary School in Washington, DC, CJSF’s Allison R. Brown talks with principal Johann Lee and local Education Council Chair Eboni-Rose Thompson about how educators must lead with love in support of students and thei

SchoolHouse: Dress Coded - Policing Black Girls Through Clothing

Nov 8th, 2019 35m 53s

CJSF's Allison R. Brown talks to the President and CEO of the National Women's Law Center, Fatima Goss Graves, about the Center's report on school dress codes in Washington, DC, and the ways dress codes are used to stifle expression and control

SchoolHouse: Leading While Following: A Social Justice Teachers Guide

Oct 8th, 2019 37m 6s

Social justice teachers Cierra Kaler Jones and Rosalie Reyes join CJSF's Allison R. Brown in conversation about how to nurture and embrace all students, all of the people who walk into the classroom with their children, and all of those who wal

SchoolHouse: More Than A Building

Sep 8th, 2019 57m 18s

CJSF’s Allison R. Brown goes to school with professor Dr. Noliwe Rooks, author of Cutting School: Privatization, Segregation, and the End of Public Education. They discuss how capitalism requires and perpetuates racial and socioeconomic segrega

SchoolHouse: Pa’lante (Forward) in Puerto Rico

Nov 27th, 2018 50m 7s

CJSF’s Jaime Koppel and Thena Robinson Mock welcome CJSF partners and Andrus Family Fund to recap EASJ2018 in San Juan, Puerto Rico and explore together why global solidarity is necessary for justice in Puerto Rico and justice everywhere.Mer

Classroom Not Cages: Shifting our Nation’s Priorities

Jun 29th, 2018 36m 5s

The School to Prison/School to Deportation Pipelines are ugly. CJSF’s Jaime Koppel speaks with Ricardo Martinez from Padres Y Jovenes Unidos and Erika Almiron from Vamos Juntos about shifting our nation’s priorities.

#HealthIsWealth: Protecting Our Frontlines and Reserves!

Apr 29th, 2018 59m 14s

CJSF’s Alexis J. Smith welcomes Exec. Dir. Allison Brown, as one of a 5-member panel of "well women" to define, support, and insist that wellness be an unapologetic component to success and wealth building strategies in community organizing and

Shuttered Doors: The Depletion of Black Dayton

Mar 26th, 2018 32m 57s

CJSF’s Gabriel L. Matthews speaks with Hashim Jabar, Executive Dir. of Racial Justice NOW! and Zakiya Sankara-Jabar, National Field Organizer and Co-Founder of Racial Justice NOW! about the increasing divestment from West Dayton schools and the

North Star: What the U.S. Can Learn From Canada About School Policing

Feb 23rd, 2018 42m 5s

CJSF’s Thena Robinson Mock speaks with Toronto community organizers and officials about the powerful community organizing that led to the end of Toronto’s School Resource Officer (SRO) Program in 2017.

SchoolHouse: Using Data for Young Women's Freedom

Dec 1st, 2017 28m 17s

CJSF's Allison R. Brown talks with Tia Martinez of Forward Change Consulting and Jessica Nowlan of the Young Women's Freedom Center about how they use data as a tool to equip young women to communicate, organize, and advocate to fight systemic

SchoolHouse: The Hidden Truth in Miami

Nov 24th, 2017 22m 33s

CJSF's Allison R. Brown talks to Miami’s Power U. Center for Social Change and Advancement Project about their new report, The Hidden Truth, which reveals the educational inequities for Black and Brown Miami students.

A Victory Against Implicit Bias

Sep 8th, 2017 37m 21s

CJSF’s Allison R. Brown is joined by Eva Paterson, Founder and Director of the Equal Justice Society. They discuss the historic victory a group of civil rights organizations won when they settled a bias case against Kern H.S. District in Bakers

America’s Addiction to Hate

Sep 1st, 2017 45m 24s

Is the white supremacist violence in Charlottesville symptomatic of America’s addiction to racial hatred? CJSF’s Allison R. Brown explores the illness that is addiction with psychiatrist and addiction expert Dr. Nzinga Ajabu.

Regulating Police... in Schools

Aug 18th, 2017 39m 49s

CJSF’s Allison R. Brown talks with Lisa Thurau, Executive Director of Strategies for Youth, about the troubling presence of police in schools, the need for training, and states’ failure to regulate police in their interactions with young people

Secession in the South

Aug 11th, 2017 33m 13s

CJSF's Allison R. Brown talks to NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund attorney Monique Lin-Luse about a case in Alabama in which a white community has been permitted by a court to continue with plans to secede from a predominantly black sch

School Nurses: A Remedy to Education Inequity?

Aug 4th, 2017 31m 17s

CJSF’s Allison R. Brown speaks with Donna Mazyck, Executive Director of the National Association of School Nurses, about the role of school nurses and how they can contribute to a positive, healthy, and equitable learning environment for studen

Education as Radical Health

Jul 28th, 2017 34m 6s

CJSF’s Allison R. Brown talks with Elmo Gomez of the Labor Community Strategy Center & Ivelyse Andino of Radical Health about their work to build a movement for radical health and equity in education.

Social Engineering for Justice

Jul 20th, 2017 48m 21s

CJSF’s Allison R. Brown speaks with Damon Hewitt, civil rights attorney & Director of the Executives’ Alliance for the Support of Boys & Men of Color, about equity in education, the Black lawyer’s role in fighting for justice, and finding moral

Restorative Justice in Schools

Jul 14th, 2017 32m 20s

CJSF’s Allison R. Brown talks to Jonathan Stith (Alliance for Educational Justice) and Robert Spicer (Restorative Strategies LLC) about restorative practices in schools - how it is used to address conflict between students.

Policy and Budgets: Making Sense of It All

Jun 30th, 2017 27m 3s

Join CJSF’s Allison R. Brown in a conversation with Kisha Bird, Director of Youth at CLASP (Center for Law and Social Policy), about public policy - what it really is, how it is changing today, and how communities can and should be involved in

The Black Church and Justice Movements

Jun 22nd, 2017 40m 14s

CJSF's Allison R. Brown talks with Rev. Dr. Delman Coates, President of the Black Church Center for Equality and Justice and Senior Pastor of Mt. Ennon Baptist Church, about the role of the Black church in today's justice movements.

Black Girls Matter

Jun 2nd, 2017 32m 27s

CJSF's Allison R. Brown spends some time with organizers who are part of the Miami Black Girls Matter Coalition - Ruth Jeannoel (Power U Center for Social Change), Wakumi Douglas and Logan Meza (S.O.U.L. Sisters Leadership Collective).