Black Migration Through American Education
Cleaster Cotton |
TEDxUNCAsheville
• March 2019
At twelve years old, Cleaster Cotton, was in the vanguard of the Civil Rights Movement and president of the student body at the most publicized school in American history - Junior High School 271, in Ocean Hill-Brownsville, Brooklyn, New York - during the fight for community control and the longest teachers' strike in American history. Today, Cleaster shares stories of how she survived Malicious Instructional Design, a war zone, and how she subsequently invented an answer to racial inequality in education: the evidence-based ALNUGE Codes.