2. The Attack on Public Education with Derek W.Black

Derek W.Black is a professor of law at the University of South Carolina Law School where he holds the Ernest F. Hollings Chair in Constitutional Law. He is an expert on education law and policy and civil rights. His work has been cited by the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and in several U.S. Supreme Court briefs. Mr.Black has taught at Howard University School of Law, where he founded and directed the Education Rights Center. He has also taught at the University of North Carolina School of Law (his alma mater) and the American University College of Law. He is a staunch supporter of public education and civil rights and was a member of the Obama-Biden Presidential Transition Team.  

Mr.Black is a sought-after speaker due to his knowledge of education law and policy and has a TED talk entitled "A well-informed citizenry: fact vs fiction in American media, then and now" in 2018. Most recently he is the author of the important and fascinating new book Schoolhouse Burning: Education and the Assault on American Democracy  

Books recommended by Derek W.Black: 

1. Democracy in Chains – Nancy MacLean 

2. If Beale Street Could Talk - James Baldwin

3. Another Country - James Baldwin  

4. Collected Works of Cormac McCarthy - Cormac McCarthy 

5. The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky  

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