In the wake of George Floyd’s murder, a handful of school districts have rid themselves of police, but activists have been laying the groundwork for decades
Daja E. Henry
Daja Henry, a 2019 graduate of Howard University, is a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation fellow and mass communication master’s student at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. She is a graduate assistant for the Southwest Health Reporting Initiative and Cronkite Noticias, the school’s Spanish-language program, where she assists with coverage of health disparities in underserved communities in the Southwest. She interned at the Atlanta Voice, The Wall Street Journal, the Congressional Black Caucus, and Where Y’At Magazine in her hometown of New Orleans. She has also reported from Panama, Cuba, Spain and Guyana.
What was lost in Brown v. Board of Education
The 1954 Brown v. Board of Education landmark Supreme Court decision desegregated schools, but it also laid groundwork for the school-to-prison pipeline.