AirGo is excited to present The Education Suite, a collection of episodes focusing on the liberatory histories and futures of education. This suite is co-curated by AirGo fam and general genius Eve Ewing, a professor and poet whose work is at the forefront of public conversation around the ways our education system has harmed Black and Brown young people, and the ways that our school buildings connect to larger systems of inequity across the country. On this episode, we chop it up with AirGo fam Dr. Dave Stovall, a professor at UIC who works with community organizations and schools to address issues of equity, justice and abolishing the school/prison nexus. He breaks down the distinction between education and schooling, histories of education spaces and their destruction, fugitivity, and much more.

SHOW NOTES:

The People’s Grab n Go - https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/the-peoples-grab-n-go-oral-history

Bettina Love of the Abolitionist Teaching Network - https://abolitionistteachingnetwork.org/

The Lost Education of Horace Tate by Vanessa Siddle Walker - https://thenewpress.com/books/lost-education-of-horace-tate

Paulo Freire - https://www.freire.org/paulo-freire/

Lavalas Movement - https://nacla.org/article/fanmi-lavalas-political-project

Prof. Christopher Span - https://education.illinois.edu/faculty/christopher-span

Gloria Ladson-Billings - https://naeducation.org/our-members/gloria-ladson-billings/

Dionne Danns - https://education.indiana.edu/about/directory/profiles/danns-dionne.html

Black Teacher Project - https://www.blackteacherproject.org/

Rethinking Schools - https://rethinkingschools.org/

Raise Your Hand IL - https://www.ilraiseyourhand.org/