Education for Liberation and Freedom Schooling

School segregation, racial and gender exclusion and savage inequality are as old as the United States. As are people’s efforts to challenge this. This month’s roundtable focuses on Freedom Schooling: how people imagined and created education that befit a free Black people. These four scholars all give us portraits of the various strategies and visions for liberation that parents, students, and community activists have developed over the past sixty years to press for and develop equal, excellent, and emancipatory education, particularly in New York City. They show how parents and community activists took on school segregation, unequal resources, decrepit facilities, racially biased curriculum, the need for more diversity in faculty and administration, as well as the need for more community control in the administration of schools serving young people of color. Please join Professors Charles Payne, Brian Purnell, Ujju Aggarwal and Nicole Burrowes for this timely roundtable.