On The Margins Podcast

From the Center for Racial Equity in Education (CREED), this is  Deep Rooted: An Audio Exploration of Race and Education in North Carolina. Written by Ethan Roy and James E. Ford, Deep Rooted is a historical companion piece to CREED’s E(race)ing Inequities Report. You can access both reports at our website: CREED-NC.org. Over four episodes, this podcast lays out the history of educational opportun...

From the Center for Racial Equity in Education (CREED), this is  Deep Rooted: An Audio Exploration of Race and Education in North Carolina. Written by Ethan Roy and James E. Ford, Deep Rooted is a historical companion piece to CREED’s E(race)ing Inequities Report. You can access both reports at our website: CREED-NC.org. Over four episodes, this podcast lays out the history of educational opportun...

From the Center for Racial Equity in Education (CREED), this is  Deep Rooted: An Audio Exploration of Race and Education in North Carolina. Written by Ethan Roy and James E. Ford, Deep Rooted is a historical companion piece to CREED’s E(race)ing Inequities Report. You can access both reports at our website: CREED-NC.org. Over four episodes, this podcast lays out the history of educational opportun...

From the Center for Racial Equity in Education (CREED), this is  Deep Rooted: An Audio Exploration of Race and Education in North Carolina. Written by Ethan Roy and James E. Ford, Deep Rooted is a historical companion piece to CREED’s E(race)ing Inequities Report. You can access both reports at our website: CREED-NC.org. Over four episodes, this podcast lays out the history of educational opportun...

In this episode, summer intern Ethan Rodier speaks with Dr. Ronda Taylor Bullock, Lead Curator (executive director) and co-founder of We Are , a NC nonprofit providing anti-racism training for children, families and educators about how Critical Race Theory has been made a scapegoat and boogeyman in education as it has been attacked by pundits, rallied against by parents and restricted by scho...

In this episode, a North Carolina A&T University student leads a roundtable discussion with current students about why they chose their HBCU . Plus, we check-in with alumni & staff from other #TheNC10 institutions. Guests include Octavian Lloyd, a student at Livingstone College; Minnie Forte-Brown, of NC Central University; plus Jasmine Amaniampong and students from NC A&T University.

In this episode, Jerry J. Wilson interviews Dr. Karen Cox, an author and historian from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and Cortland Gilliam, a poet and graduate student in the School of Education at UNC Chapel Hill. Professor Cox discusses Confederate memory and recent efforts to whitewash United States history in schools. Cortland shares his experiences as a student activist and h...

In this episode, Kamille Bostick interviews Dr. Munro Richardson of Read Charlotte a community initiative to improve children's literacy from birth-to-third grade and Steffany Stanic, a middle school teacher in Charlotte. They share their personal connections to reading proficiency, the challenges associated with getting students reading on grade level, and what they hope to achieve in their respe...

In our first episode of Season 3, Janeen Bryant talks with two young Black and Brown community organizers with roots in North Carolina about their trajectory into the space of activism and what they see as the most pressing issues facing the state. Clarissa Brooks is a Charlotte native, independent movement journalist and cultural worker. Mayra Stefanía Arteaga is a Charlotte-based immigrant right...

On the Margins Podcast is produced by CREED (or the Center for Racial Equity in Education).  Even though this is our second season of the program, it's the first year CREED has officially been in operation publicly. In this episode (recorded on 8/19/20) co-founders James E. Ford and Janeen Bryant reflect on the work of CREED, successes and challenges with discussing race and offer some highli...

The Leandro vs. North Carolina lawsuit has become a foundational court case in defining the educational rights of students in North Carolina. In 1994, five rural districts sued the state making the case that they did not have enough resources to provide the constitutionally mandated education. From this litigation, the language of all students being entitled to a "sound basic education" emerged. T...

CREED has just completed it's inaugural year of the North Carolina Equity Fellowship, a leadership development program created to equip advocates for educational equity by deepening their knowledge, skills and understanding of racialized disparities in North Carolina schools. We selected FOUR initial fellows: Rodney Pierce (Teacher Fellow), Dr. Jonita Taylor (Principal Fellow), Porcha McMillan (Sc...

North Carolina is home to 8 Native American tribes. There is beautiful diversity, tradition and complex history that characterize each group that predates the formation of the United States. While the stories of First Nations people tend to be fixed in the past, the fact of the matter is they are still here! Indigenous students make up 1% of the student population in the North Carolina and often e...

When discussing educational equity for minoritized racial and ethnic groups, many advocates tend to focus on non -Asian students of color. The Asian-American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) category is a massive catch-all demographic that includes groups from Far East Asia, South East Asia, South Asia, and even the Arabian Peninsula. Failure to properly understand the diversity within this group and d...

Matt Scialdone is an African American Literature Teacher at Middle Creek High School in Wake County. He's a teacher who takes a problem-posing approach to teaching and learning that looks for explicit ways to connect text-to-context . His teaching philosophy is one that honors the agency,  various cultural orientations, and ways of knowing that his students embody. For him, teaching is about...

Dr. Tracey Benson is co-author of the recently released book Unconscious Bias in Schools: A Developmental Approach to Exploring Race and Racism . He is an associate professor, race scholar, former teacher and principal. His depth of knowledge about issues of race and schools is born from both extensive personal experience and research in the field. In this episode, he shares the ways that teachers...

Harvey B. Gantt is known for many things. Among them is being the first African American admitted into Clemson University in 1963. But what is less talked about is his K-12 experience in the all-Black segregated schools of Charleston, SC. Harvey's alma mater, Burke Industrial School, was the subject of a research article that makes the powerful argument that Black teachers in the South helped cata...

In this brief episode, we sit down with State Representative Graig Meyer (D) from District 50 in the North Carolina General Assembly. In between sessions he takes time to discuss how being a parent of a child of color shaped his advocacy as a parent and practitioner, using Critical Race Theory to understand how American society operates, a lasting strategy for the May 1st Teacher March in NC, and...

Dr. NaKeshia Williams is an assistant professor in the College of Education at North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro, NC. Working at one of the largest HBCUs in the nation gives her a unique perspective on the role of Black schools in helping increase teacher diversity. NC A&T also has a partnership with BranchED, an organization that utilizes Minority Serving Institutions (MSI...

Ricky Hurtado is the Co-Executive Director of LatinxEd, an organization dedicated to expanding equitable access to higher education for Latino students across North Carolina. He is the child of Central American immigrants and a Morehead-Cain scholar whose personal journey guides his work of exploring the intersections of race, gender, class and immigration. He is doing phenomenal work assisting La...

Guilford County Schools (NC) Superintendent Dr. Sharon Contreras sits down with James E. Ford to discuss what inspires her leadership at the district-level. She shares about her early love for education, being denied access to gifted education as an adolescent, her identity as an Afro-Latina and how greater systemic problems such as racism and inequality are the root causes of opportunity gaps in...