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Victoria Earle Matthews, Journalist, Author, and Social Worker

March 14, 2022

By Dan Gore Victoria Earle Matthews was a journalist, author, clubwoman, and social worker. She was born a slave in Fort Valley Georgia. Her mother Caroline Smith was said to have been a Virginian. Her white father was so cruel that her mother fled to New York, leaving her nine children with an old nurse. […]

Ellen Garrison, Antislavery Activist and Educator

January 27, 2022

By Dan Gore In 1866, Ellen Garrison tested the nation’s first Civil Rights Act in court. Almost a century before Rosa Parks took her seat on an Alabama bus, Ellen sat in a segregated waiting room in a Baltimore train station an was “forcibly ejected.” Ellen felt it was her duty to test the new […]

Systemic Racism in Schools

January 18, 2022

By Amira, Class of 2021 Within the last couple of years Critical Race Theory, a theory that calls for the awareness of systemic racism and pushes for racial equity, has sparked conversations in private schools. In the wake of the public lynching of George Floyd, New York City private schools began adjusting their […]