Michigan Journal of Race & Law

Separate but Unequal

“I wasn’t supposed to make it. I was supposed to be pulled in by the drugs on my streets, the liquor stores on every corner, the poverty in the neighborhoods. I was supposed to have failed at the underfunded and mismanaged schools I attended by default.” —Donny Gonzalez, Maya Angelou Public Charter School

This Symposium, convened by the Michigan Journal of Race & Law, was designed to address many of the issues raised in the above comment by Donny Gonzalez,… more