"If we commit to this notion of education as Freedom Work, we can shift educational conditions, so that no girl, even the most vulnerable among us, can get pushed out of school. And that's a win for all of us....
Dr. King’s message of love as a core demand of justice extends to our ongoing work to create learning conditions for young people that provide them with safe spaces to become skilled critical thinkers and to develop character traits that best serve them and our families, communities, and institutions. In this video, I talk about how schools can interrupt (rather than facilitate) pathways to criminalization and narratives of exclusion for Black girls by becoming locations for healing."
- Dr. Monique W. Morris, President of National Black Women's Justice Institute