We speak with long-time organizer, education advocate, and co-founder of SF Black Wall street, Bivett Brackett. In our conversation, she breaks down the rich history of public education in San Francisco. She details how it was a Black man named William Alexander Leidesdorff. He was one of the richest men in California at the time. However, because of harsh racial laws and segregation, the schools that Leidesdorff founded became institutions for white men only.
This is just one of the many jewels that Bivett shares with us. She talks in detail about the long history of Black and Asian solidarity around public schools and equity, only to have that undermined by ultra-conservative forces who came on the scene and exuded anti-Black sentiments which devolved into policy.
We talk about the recent recall elections around SF School Board, the current controversies plaguing the new board, the move to defund programs that would help Black and Brown students, and the history of merit-based admissions in San Francisco. We also talk at length about the racial history of Lowell High school and why it still exists despite glaring
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