In February 2014, LBS CEO Adam Jackson sat down with The Marc Steiner Show to discuss the an article that appeared in the Baltimore Post-Examiner, titled “Baltimore City, You’re Breaking My Heart: This is why people leave”.
We discuss the local news, including Baltimore reactions to the Detroit Bankruptcy, Baltimore’s mismanaged grant to end homelessness, and news in the Tyrone West case.
Dayvon Love, Director of Research and Public Policy for Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle and former member of the Towson University Debate Team, and Ameena Ruffin, Towson University student and current member of the TU Debate Team, join us. The university is currently investigating accusations of harassment and retaliation, including incidents documented in Love’s “Why you shouldn’t send your Black and Brown children to Towson University.”
We open a dialogue between two cities facing tough decisions on the future of education and schools: Chicago and Baltimore.
Many of these nonprofits are working to address social problems concentrated in poor neighborhoods—neighborhoods that are often populated overwhelmingly by people of color.
Today, we’ll explore the racial dynamics that come into play when white-led organizations work with these communities.
In the Baltimore episode, we featured the story of Dayvon Love, and learned how the debate team changed his life. Here’s more of Dayvon’s story from SOTRU intern JP Davidson, who tells us about the new shift that’s spreading across the debate community.
0:00 / 0:00 Baltimore Students Redefine the Rules of Debate Baltimoreans Dayvon Love and Deven Cooper made history in 2008 as the first African Americans to win a national debate
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