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Can We Talk About How Race Affects Our Classrooms?

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Location: Baltimore, MD
Event Date: November 2, 2009

Beverly Daniel Tatum, president of Spelman College and author of Can We Talk About Race? And Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation, will talk with David Hornbeck, former Philadelphia superintendent of schools and author of Choosing Excellence in Public Schools: Where There's a Will, There's a Way, about how race plays out in American classrooms.

Speakers

  • Diana Morris, director of OSI-Baltimore (opening remarks and introductions)
  • Carla Hayden, executive director of the Enoch Pratt Free Library (opening remarks and introductions)
  • Joe Jones, OSI-Baltimore board member (moderator)
  • Beverly Daniel Tatum, president of Spelman College and author of Can We Talk About Race? And Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation
  • David Hornbeck, former Philadelphia superintendent of schools and author of Choosing Excellence in Public Schools: Where There's a Will, There's a Way

Location

Wheeler Auditorium, Enoch Pratt Free Library
400 Cathedral Street
Baltimore, MD 21201

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OSI-Baltimore Launches "Talking About Race" Series
August 13, 2009
OSI-Baltimore's yearlong speaker series probes how Americans talk (or do not talk) about race.

How Does White America Talk About Race?
Baltimore, MD
December 1, 2009
Rich Benjamin, author of Searching for Whitopia: An Improbable Journey to the Heart of White America, and Tim Wise, author of Between Barack & A Hard Place: Racism & White Denial in the Age of Obama, will discuss white America's struggle to talk about race.

Stoop Stories
Baltimore, MD
February 22, 2010
In partnership with OSI-Baltimore, this performance series will present “Across the Divide: Stories About Race in Baltimore,” a show about being black and white in Baltimore.

Is America Really Post-Racial? A Screening of "New Muslim Cool"
Baltimore, MD
March 2, 2010
Featuring an interactive spoken word performance, film screening, and panel discussion, this event will examine the emerging worldview of a new generation of Americans.

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