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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Integrated Teams Level the Playing Field
The story of RARE started with sports – specifically the Roosevelt High School football and basketball teams from the class […]
RARE Reaches First Scholarship Goal
The first of RARE’s goals is about to be realized. The James A. Davis Memorial Scholarship will be awarded to […]
Put Your Personal Statement on the RARE Donors Wall
From the beginning of RARE, we had reason to be optimistic that we could raise money for the James A. […]
“We Hear You”
Recently, Lauren Kirkpatrick wrote a moving and telling Student Voices column in the Seattle Times about racism in the Bellevue […]
About Those Photos on the RARE Website
Every picture tells a story, but sometimes the story is told by the pictures that are absent, too. As we […]