A new excerpt of my book just published in the Democrat and Chronicle.
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Joyce Rapp, the longtime Lima town historian and my great aunt, died in April at age 96.
Good news for those anxiously awaiting the publication of my book: another author at Cornell University Press, Laura Warren Hill, has just published a book
My book will be titled “Your Children Are Very Greatly in Danger,” after a James Baldwin essay.
I’ll be giving my presentation on the history of housing and education segregation in Rochester twice this week, if you’re interested in watching. First at
Alice Young was the first Black principal in the Rochester City School District.
The factors working against Black educators in the Rochester City School District today are the same that affected Andrew Ray in 1976.
There has been a movement toward culturally responsive curriculum in Rochester for decades, but progress has been fitful.
Yesterday in Rochester, New York Attorney General Letitia James announced a grand jury declined to indict the Rochester police officers involved in the death of
Florence Sprague became the first Black teacher in Rochester history when she was hired at School 24 in 1889.