Alliance for Educational Justice

(1) What's #PoliceFreeSchools you ask? We got you. Here is our collective definition: Dismantling school policing infrastructure, culture, and practice; ending school militarization and surveillance; and building a new liberatory education system. #AbolishPolice #DefundPolice

🚨 On Monday, SCOTUS greenlit racial profiling. That means ICE can stop youth for speaking Spanish, being Brown, or just standing at a bus stop. This isn’t safety—it’s racial terror. But we refuse to be silent. Youth power will resist. #StopTheRaids #YouthFightBack

On this day in 1965, Muslim minister and human rights activist, Malcolm X, was assassinated.

I am so honored to share that Black Folk is a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize in History!!!! To be recognized among such tremendous works of scholarship is both humbling and invigorating at this moment in my life! Thankful. 💕

"To be African American is to be African without any memory and American without any privilege." — James Baldwin

The largest humanitarian crisis in the world is ongoing in DR Congo over 5 million dead, 7 million displaced and 27 million facing starvation.

American medicine has been built upon the abuse of black people with no oversight. I'll revisit a few cases of how Black people were abused in the field of medicine. #blackhistorymonth  THREAD(s)!

Sister Rosetta Tharpe is credited as the Godmother of Rock ‘N’ Roll. Before Elvis, Johnny Cash or Little Richard, there was Sister Tharpe- A Black woman who forged her own sound in a male dominated industry. She does not get the credit she deserves.

Angela Davis’s new book Abolition: Politics, Practices, Promises Vol. 1 is now available!

Today, we remember and celebrate the life of Trayvon Martin on what would have been his 29th birthday. He should be here celebrating with his loved ones. We will continue to fight for #policeaccountability, #justice, and equal protection in his honor.

We're hiring! Our Youth Organizer plays a vital role in our high schools, being essential in the leadership development of our high schoolers; if this sounds like you, peep the bio for the link to join our amazing team of organizers.

The irony of an administration cutting school budgets while simultaneously adding more school police officers is lost on no one. In the streets or in our schools, more cops do not make us safer.

Another session with @CMAHumanities with a group of their brilliant students 💛 Today we spoke about the great work the students have been doing this week talking about ableism and educating other students about disabilities.

Palestinians are posting their final words over social media while western white society is busy fantasizing what it’s like to be threatened with genocide by the people they’re murdering

HAPPENING NOW! Elders are being arrested for blockading construction at the Cop City site. #StopCopCity

Police have no place in our schools or in our communities–and students are demanding their removal. Across the country, they are leading the fight for #policefreeschools from Oakland and Phoenix to Nashville and Madison and won't stop until they have the freedom to learn + grow.

Our data reveals the abuses of power police are capable of in our schools, despite false claims that police make students safer. In the last school year, not only were Black students (over 80%) overwhelmingly victims of police assault, over half of the victims were girl.

New report from @adv_project and @4edjustice shows the presence of police in schools actively jeopardizes young people’s safety, including through sexualization, sexual harassment, and sexual assault, especially of Black girls. Read the full report here: policefreeschools.org/policesexualvi…

Police sexual violence was the 2nd most frequent type of assault last year. Since 2011, sexual assault has moved up as the third most frequent type of police assault against students. Yet police faced no consequences for harming students in well over half of recorded incidents.

Happening NOW Join @adv_project, @4EdJustice, @nwlc, @splcenter,@inournames, @interruptcrim right now for #SafeNotSexualized, a virtual event with @dreanyc123, @TaranaBurke, researchers, and survivors about school police sexual violence. eventbrite.com/x/safe-not-sex…