[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"detail-sidebar-cat-0-en-105":3,"doc-seo-594913-105":59,"doc-detail-594913-en":130},{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":6},0,"success",[7,13,18,23,28,33,38,43,48,51,55],{"id":8,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":10,"show_sort_weight":11,"slug":12},1,"Document","Story & Novel",90,"story-novel",{"id":14,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":15,"show_sort_weight":16,"slug":17},2,"Literature",80,"literature",{"id":19,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":20,"show_sort_weight":21,"slug":22},4,"Exam",70,"exam",{"id":24,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":25,"show_sort_weight":26,"slug":27},5,"Comic",60,"comic",{"id":29,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":30,"show_sort_weight":31,"slug":32},6,"Technology",50,"technology",{"id":34,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":35,"show_sort_weight":36,"slug":37},7,"Healthcare",40,"healthcare",{"id":39,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":40,"show_sort_weight":41,"slug":42},8,"Research & Report",30,"research-report",{"id":44,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":45,"show_sort_weight":46,"slug":47},9,"Religion & Spirituality",20,"religion-spirituality",{"id":46,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":49,"show_sort_weight":46,"slug":50},"World Cup","world-cup",{"id":52,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":53,"show_sort_weight":52,"slug":54},10,"Lifestyle","lifestyle",{"id":56,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":57,"show_sort_weight":24,"slug":58},19,"General","general",{"code":4,"msg":60,"data":61},"ok",{"site_id":62,"language":63,"slug":64,"title":65,"keywords":66,"description":67,"schema_data":68,"social_meta":123,"head_meta":125,"extra_data":127,"updated_unix":129},105,"en","building-power-through-racial-justice-organizing-the-blacklivesmatteratschool-week-of-action-in-k-12-and-beyond","Building Power Through Racial Justice - Organizing the #BlackLivesMatterAtSchool Week of Action in K-12 and Beyond","","The article examines how James Baldwin’s call for educators to fight racism remains urgent for contemporary schooling, given persistent racial and economic segregation and widespread racial injustice. It highlights the Black Lives Matter at School National Week of Action as a concrete example of new social justice unionism, first situating the movement by reviewing teachers’ unions’ historically problematic approaches to race. The discussion then centers organizers’ higher education outreach and invitations for faculty and unions to join the fight.",{"@graph":69,"@context":122},[70,84,105],{"@type":71,"itemListElement":72},"BreadcrumbList",[73,77,79,82],{"item":74,"name":75,"@type":76,"position":8},"https://docshare.wps.com","Home","ListItem",{"item":78,"name":9,"@type":76,"position":14},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/",{"item":80,"name":40,"@type":76,"position":81},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/research-report/",3,{"item":83,"name":65,"@type":76,"position":19},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/building-power-through-racial-justice-organizing-the-blacklivesmatteratschool-week-of-action-in-k-12-and-beyond/594913/",{"url":83,"name":65,"@type":85,"image":86,"author":91,"headline":65,"publisher":94,"fileFormat":97,"inLanguage":63,"description":67,"dateModified":98,"datePublished":99,"encodingFormat":97,"isAccessibleForFree":100,"interactionStatistic":101},"DigitalDocument",{"url":87,"@type":88,"width":89,"height":90},"https://docshare.wps.com/thumbnails/building-power-through-racial-justice-organizing-the-blacklivesmatteratschool-week-of-action-in-k-12-and-beyond/594913.png","ImageObject",300,407,{"name":92,"@type":93},"Mary Man","Person",{"url":74,"name":95,"@type":96},"DocShare","Organization","application/pdf","2026-11-01","2026-10-15",true,{"@type":102,"interactionType":103,"userInteractionCount":52},"InteractionCounter",{"@type":104},"ViewAction",{"@type":106,"mainEntity":107},"FAQPage",[108,114,118],{"name":109,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":111},"Why does the article connect James Baldwin’s “A Talk to Teachers” to modern education?","Question",{"text":112,"@type":113},"It argues Baldwin’s emphasis on responding to racism inside schools and U.S. society remains relevant because schools still show racial and economic segregation and current racial injustices shape the sociopolitical reality.","Answer",{"name":115,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":116},"What problem does the article identify in the historical role of teachers’ unions regarding race?",{"text":117,"@type":113},"It states that unions have often failed to adequately represent Black teachers and have not prioritized improving educational quality for Black students, leading to serious conflicts with communities of Color.",{"name":119,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":120},"What action does the article spotlight as an example of educators and unions engaging in racial justice work?",{"text":121,"@type":113},"It highlights the Black Lives Matter at School National Week of Action and describes the authors’ work as organizers doing higher education outreach to encourage faculty and unions to join.","https://schema.org",{"og:url":83,"og:type":124,"og:title":65,"og:site_name":95,"og:description":67},"article",{"robots":126,"canonical":83},"index,follow",{"doc_id":128,"site_id":62},594913,1792167417,{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":131},{"doc_id":128,"user_id":132,"nickname":92,"user_avatar":133,"doc_module":4,"category_id":39,"category_name":40,"doc_title":65,"doc_description":67,"doc_content":134,"file_id":135,"file_url":136,"file_type":137,"file_size":138,"view_count":52,"is_deleted":4,"is_public":8,"is_downloadable":8,"audit_status":8,"page_count":34,"language":139,"language_code":63,"site_id":62,"html_lang":63,"table_of_contents":140,"faqs":141,"seo_title":142,"seo_description":67,"update_tm":143,"read_time":144,"preview_page_count":4},7421720224475,"https://ap-avatar.wpscdn.com/davatar_276721f389ce27ea32af1340a28f341c","UC Berkeley  \nBerkeley Review of Education  \nTitle  \nBuilding Power Through Racial Justice: Organizing the \\#BlackLivesMatterAtSchool Week of Action in K-12 and Beyond  \nPermalink  \n[https://escholarship.org/uc/item/02c9d5zw](https://escholarship.org/uc/item/02c9d5zw)  \nJournal  \nBerkeley Review of Education, 9(1)  \nAuthors  \nMorrison, Dana  \nPorter-Webb, Elly  \nPublication Date  \n2019  \nDOI  \n10.5070/B89146431  \n[eScholarship.org](eScholarship.org) Powered by the California Digital Library  \nUniversity of California  \nRunning head: BUILDING POWER THROUGH  \nBuilding Power Through Racial Justice: Organizing the  \n\\#BlackLivesMatterAtSchool Week of Action in K-12 and  \nBeyond  \nDana Morrison 1a Elly Porter-Webbb  \naWest Chester University of Pennsylvania  \nbWest Chester University of Pennsylvania and Community College of Philadelphia  \nOn October 16, 1963, author James Baldwin delivered his well-known “A Talk to Teachers” in which he argued that the United States was “desperately menaced . . . from within” (p. 325) by centuries of racialized cruelty. In his speech, Baldwin (19 85) implored educators to “go for broke”(p. 325) in their attempts to address the racism operating not only in their classrooms but in the very fabric of U.S. society. Speaking at the height of the Civil Rights Movement, Baldwin addressed New York City teachers who witnessed the active desegregation of schools across the country and the ongoing fight for racial justice in voting, housing, and employment. Yet 56 years later, Baldwin’s call to action is regrettably just as relevant to the modern educator. Our schools remain racially and economically segregated (EdBuild, 2019; Orfield, Frankenberg, Ee, & Kuscera, 2014; Reardon & Owens, 2014) and racial injustices permeate our contemporary sociopolitical reality (Edwards, Lee, & Esposito, 2019; McKernan, Ratcliffe, Steuerle, & Zhang, 2013; Nellis, 2016 ; Shapiro, Meschede, & Osoro, 2013) .  \nMany educators in the current era, however, are breathing new life into Baldwin’s charge that teachers commit themselves to fight for racial justice. In this essay, we highlight one important example of that fight, the Black Lives Matter at School National Week of Action. Entering its fourth year, we first contextualize this growing movement by discussing the historically problematic position held by teachers’unions on issues of race before situating the National Week of Action within the current wave of social justice unionism. We then share our work as organizers of the higher education outreach for the National Week of Action and call on higher education faculty members and unions to join the fight.  \nRace and Teachers Unions: A Problematic Past  \nWhen the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) was created in 1916, its purpose was explicitly twofold, to both protect teachers and to improve the quality of education for all students (ToddBreland, 2018) . Many teachers unions, however, have not lived up to this purpose, by both failing to adequately represent Black teachers and not prioritizing the improvement of the quality of education for Black students.  \n1 Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to: Dana Morrison. Email: [Dmorrison@wcupa.edu](Dmorrison@wcupa.edu).  \nBerkeley Review of Education Vol. 9, No.1  \nFor example, in the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) of the late 1960s and early 1970s, the unequal treatment of non-certified teachers—largely Black educators in the city—led to deep divides at critical moments. With a leadership that routinely ignored their interests and the interests of communities of Color, Black teachers looked to outside organizations to take up their needs and concerns (Todd-Breland, 2018) . In Chicago, Black teachers created the Teachers Division of Operation Breadbasket, an arm of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, arguing that “the Black community of parents, teachers and students must attack both heads of the single snake of institutional racism: The Board of E","cbCailTtE21l9pGV","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCailTtE21l9pGV","pdf",223995,"English","# Building power through racial justice\n## Baldwin’s call and contemporary relevance\n## Race and teachers unions: a problematic past","[{\"question\":\"Why does the article connect James Baldwin’s “A Talk to Teachers” to modern education?\",\"answer\":\"It argues Baldwin’s emphasis on responding to racism inside schools and U.S. society remains relevant because schools still show racial and economic segregation and current racial injustices shape the sociopolitical reality.\"},{\"question\":\"What problem does the article identify in the historical role of teachers’ unions regarding race?\",\"answer\":\"It states that unions have often failed to adequately represent Black teachers and have not prioritized improving educational quality for Black students, leading to serious conflicts with communities of Color.\"},{\"question\":\"What action does the article spotlight as an example of educators and unions engaging in racial justice work?\",\"answer\":\"It highlights the Black Lives Matter at School National Week of Action and describes the authors’ work as organizers doing higher education outreach to encourage faculty and unions to join.\"}]","Building Power Through Racial Justice - Organizing the #BlackLivesMatterAtSchool Week of Action in K-12 and Beyond | PDF",1792080080,18]