#endsegregation

[kwoe]

@dnash425 keep fighting for what’s right! Proud of you, keep shining a honest positive light on the city we all love so much. #Love #EndTheHatred #EndSegregation #EndPoliceBrutality #FightForEquality https://www.instagram.com/p/Boh6ygoHlxb/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=e4tk3phws99z

[kwoe]

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Great meeting this morning with award winning author @lindagartz and @meghanbreyerconsulting look forward to reading this book (it’s been awhile) excited to read it. #InvestInOurYouth #EndSegregation #Redlined #KingOfTheMitzvahs

[francesantoinette]

The roots of Little Rock's segregated neighborhoods

Little Rock is today a city of two halves. One, to the east of I-30 and to the south of I-630, is predominantly black and...

I like action movies as much as anyone, but it's always the same story; hero saves entire city (or world) from easily-hated enemy in limited time span, normally one night. As a kid I was always dissatisfied with movies because they made me want more - I wanted to be that hero, I wanted to save people and be special. What I never saw is that there are other options, and that I could have a hand in the ending. Maybe once in a while we should tell about heroes that couldn't save millions of people from being booted from their homes to the least desirable parts of the city, and how that city still suffers the effects of that injustice to this day in the form of fear, suspicion, lost revenue, lost growth, and lost cultural richness. What an incredible opportunity to empower audiences! Imagine if sometimes, as in Little Rock's case, the ending wasn't happy. If people wanted a happy ending they would have to make it for themselves - and they could! 

The real villains are out there, maybe audiences just aren't ready to have to save the day, every day.