Getting Discipline Right
“J” was a disciplinary problem all through school. School officials saw him as an angry Black male. At one point, […]
How to Make Connections
In the 1960s and ‘70s at start of Seattle’s desegregations program, it didn’t matter whether students were in favor of […]
James Weldon Johnson, Renaissance Man
RARE’s Open Discussion on March 28, 2022 featured University of Washington-Bothell Professor Emeritus, Cherry A. McGee Banks’s presentation on Lift […]
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Long Before RARE and Connections, Kay Bullitt Strove to Bridge the Racial Divide
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