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Ep. 4 What's New with the Beacon Hill Black Alliance for Human Rights
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10 years ago, I was raising my black teenage son in the city schools of Decatur. I first remember learning about the Beacon Hill Black Alliance. During those years, the City of Decatur was gentrifying very, very quickly, resulting in a noticeable and market change in the city's racial demographic
More, and more upper middle class white families were moving into the city and the largely black, lower middle class and working class families were being priced out. To make things worse, the city released records on the disproportionality in discipline between black and white kids. Within the schools, black students had higher rates of suspension and expulsion.
This and many other events served as the catalyst for the creation of the Beacon Hill Black Alliance, an organization that's made up of a committed group of Decatur residents who were bonded together in the fight against systemic racism. Three years ago, I moved out of Decatur, and for this episode I wanted to revisit the efforts of the Beacon Hill Black Alliance.
And I wanted to do so by speaking with one of its co-chairs, Fonta High, and its Secretary Paul McLennan. Let's get to it.
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