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- Accius, Berry, 179, 191
- accountability, 20, 85, 97, 119, 127, 154, 160, 171, 181–182, 183
- advocacy, 19, 28, 106, 118–119, 121, 126, 133–134, 138, 170, 174–175, 183, 184
- Alabama State University (ASU), 142
- Anderson, Azalya, 83
- Anthony, Susan B., 7
- Arbery, Ahmaud, 17–18, 120, 128
- Arden Arcade, 19, 38, 47–48, 80, 91
- Art and Science of Portraiture, The (Lawrence-Lightfoot and Hoffman Davis), 111
- Avalos, Noemi, 11–12
- Baldwin, James, 121
- Banks v. Housing Authority of the City and County of San Francisco, 32
- basketball, 78, 127, 174
- BCLC. See Black Child Legacy Campaign (BCLC)
- Bean-Garrett, Tanya, 191
- beauty, 144–145
- Becker, Albert H., 30, 32
- Bethune, Mary McLeod, 76
- Between the World and Me (Coates), 2
- Black Boys Build, 78–79
- Black Child Legacy Campaign (BCLC), 1–3, 5–8; background on, 18–20, 19; education and, 54; homicides and, 64; impact of, 128–129; legacy and, 172–174; lessons from, 183; name of, 11; neighborhoods, 42–48; patterns of possibility, 87–91; social services and, 153; transformative justice and, 20–21
- Black Lives Matter, 106, 120, 128, 136, 166–167, 184
- Blackness, 17–18, 60, 120, 124, 142, 144, 168
- Black Panther Party, 43
- Black Parallel School Board (BPSB), 59–60
- Black Student Union (BSU), 57
- Blackwell, Angela Glover, 106
- Blanco Gonzalez, David, 12, 80–81
- BPSB. See Black Parallel School Board (BPSB)
- Brave New Voices International Poetry Festival and Slam, 69
- Bridges, Ruby, 53
- Brown, Michael, 120
- Brown, Pat, 36–37
- Brown v. Board of Education, 26, 36, 53
- BSU. See Black Student Union (BSU)
- Build.Black, 105–108, 127, 136
- California Funders for Boys and Men of Color, 127
- Canson, Virna, 32
- capitalism, racialized, 4
- Casewell County Training School, 56
- Cavanaugh, Bartley, 31, 34
- CDF. See Children’s Defense Fund (CDF)
- Chavez, Cesar, 7, 115
- childhood, 124, 139, 154–155
- Children’s Defense Fund (CDF), 54, 59, 85, 87
- Chouteau, Quadir, 12–13, 75–76
- CILs. See Community Incubator Leads (CILs)
- cipher, 70, 74n4
- Civil Liberties Act of 1988, 189
- Civil Rights Data Collection: Data Snapshot School Discipline, 54–56
- Clark, Stephon A., 4, 26, 48, 78, 83, 85, 106–107, 120, 137, 162
- Clavo, Jaulon “JJ,” 83
- Coates, Ta-Nehisi, 2, 6, 168
- collective action, 3, 106, 153–154, 185
- Colley, Nathaniel Sextus, 28–31, 35
- Collins, Addie Mae, 128
- Collins, Susan, 128
- colorism, 142, 144–145
- commitment, 101–102, 150–151
- community-based leadership, 92–103
- Community Incubator Leads (CILs), 3, 20, 23, 65, 77, 80, 91–92, 95, 119, 122, 129, 132, 141, 172, 177–178
- community models, of education, 56–60
- community of practice (CP), 96–98
- community reflection, 77–79, 159–165
- Community Responsive Wellness Program, 162–165
- compassion, 65, 98, 101–102, 143, 187
- Confederate monuments, 17
- Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), 38–39, 40
- Cooksy, Leslie, 11
- CORE. See Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
- cortisol, 134–135
- COVID-19 pandemic, 18, 87, 107, 128, 131, 179, 191
- CP. See community of practice (CP)
- Cronin, Melvyn I., 32–33
- cultural competency, 22, 153, 162
- curriculum, 7–8, 53, 56, 65–66, 68, 73, 144, 193n7. See also education; pedagogy
- cypher, 70, 74n4
- damage-centered evaluation, 22
- data analysis, 22
- death rates, of Black children, 4–6, 18–19, 26–27, 94, 117, 119, 132, 145
- DeGruy, Joy, 163
- dehumanization, 17, 145
- Del Paso Heights, 18–19, 37, 42–44, 95–96, 148–149
- DeWitt, Samuel, 87
- diversity, 3–4
- Douglass, Frederick, 189–190, 193n6
- Duffy, Terence, 81–83
- Duncan, Kenneth, 12, 77–79
- education, 7–8, 53–60, 77, 144–145. See also curriculum; historically Black college/university (HBCU); pedagogy
- educational leadership, 98–99
- Edwards, W. Morgan, 37
- Ellis, Aunjanue, 7
- engagement, 151–153
- equitable investment, 19, 170, 175–177
- evaluation, data, 21–24
- Every Black Child Deserves to Have a Legacy (Hill), 63–64, 70, 73
- Fair Employment Practice Commission (FEPC), 37, 40
- Fair Housing Ordinance, 33–34, 42. See also segregation
- FEPC. See Fair Employment Practice Commission (FEPC)
- Fisher, Cheryl Ann, 53–54, 57
- Fisher, Damany, 12, 26–48
- Fisher, James, 57
- Floyd, George, 17–18, 128
- Ford, Paul B., 46
- Fortune, Margaret, 58
- Fortune, Rex, 58
- Fortune Schools, 58
- Fourteenth Amendment, 29, 32, 41
- Franklin, Willie, 31
- Freedom Schools, 58–59
- From Plan to Planet: Life Studies: The Need for Afrikan Minds and Institutions (Madhubuti), 60
- Fruitridge/Stockton, 19, 46–47
- Haley, Alex, 87
- Harding, Crystal, 140–146
- HBCU. See historically Black college/university (HBCU)
- Hersey, Tricia, 192
- Hewitt, Chet, 6, 11, 89, 105–107, 125–130
- Hill, Patrice, 12, 62–73, 193
- historical analysis, 22
- historically Black college/university (HBCU), 77, 142. See also education
- Hoffmann Davis, Jessica, 111
- Holocaust, 189
- homicides, 62, 64, 80, 87, 91, 102, 120, 129, 159, 179, 192. See also Clark, Stephon A.
- Horgan, Milton G., 35
- housing segregation, 27, 33–34. See also redlining; segregation
- Huerta, Dolores, 115
- humanization, of research, 22
- humility, 99, 102
- language, 24, 174, 188
- Lawrence-Lightfoot, Sara, 111–112
- leadership: community-based, 92–103; educational, 98–99
- legacy, 172–174, 184–185
- Legacy Grants, 178
- legitimacy, 99–100
- liberation, 144–145
- Liberia, 142
- Lomotey, Kofi, 98
- Louisville, Kentucky, 132–134
- Lovecraft Country (television series), 6–7
- Ludd, Adrienne, 83
- Lyons, Mary, 192–193
- Ma’at Obolu, Adiyah, 166–169
- Madhubuti, Hakki, 56, 60
- Majors, Jonathan, 7
- Martin, Trayvon, 120
- McClain, Elijah, 128
- McClellan Air Force Base, 35, 44–45
- McCormack, Michael Brandon, 88–89
- McMahon, John H., 46
- McNair, Denise, 128
- Meadowview, 19, 27, 45, 147
- Meiners, Erica, 56
- mental health, 133, 162–165, 175, 179, 192
- methodology: in data evaluation, 21–22; importance of, 111–113
- Miller, Loren, 29, 33, 35
- Miller, Mary, 8
- Milner, Rich, 190
- Ming, Oliver A., 35
- Ming v. Horgan, 34–37
- Montgomery-Block, Kindra, 11–12, 87–91, 105–108, 131–139
- motherhood, 131–139
- Muttaqi, Khaalid, 63
- My Brother’s Keeper Initiative, 127
- NAACP. See National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), 26, 28–30, 33–34, 39, 41–42, 106
- National Housing Act, 32, 35–36
- Neely, Priska, 173
- negotiation, 126–127
- Noguera-Mujica, Amaya, 13, 162–165
- North Carolina, 17, 189
- North Highlands, 19, 35, 44–45, 142–146, 173
- pandemic, 18, 87, 107, 128, 131, 179, 191
- participant observation, in data evaluation, 21
- participation, 101–102
- pedagogy, 62–73, 150–151. See also curriculum; education
- Perry, Imani, 124
- Pinkston, Carl, 56
- place, 95–96
- Plessy v. Ferguson, 53
- poetry, 62–73
- police violence, 17, 26, 128, 162. See also Clark, Stephon A.
- policy transformation, 19, 170, 174
- political capital, 174–175
- Poole, Timothy, 191
- portraiture, 111–113
- positionality, 1, 22–23
- Positive Youth Justice Initiative, 127–128
- poverty, 2, 22, 47–48, 73, 96, 103, 136, 150, 163, 165, 180
- Project HEAL, 63–64, 74n1, 75
- public housing, 29–33, 40, 43, 77
- Public Works Administration (PWA), 29–30
- PWA. See Public Works Administration (PWA)
- racialized capitalism, 4
- racial justice, 1, 3, 6, 8, 17–18, 106–107, 119, 123, 166, 184, 189, 191
- racially restrictive covenants, 27
- racial steering, 38
- racism, 4, 189, 191; food companies and, 17; health and, 13; institutional, 6, 26–27, 48, 70, 118, 120–121, 135, 180; limited progress on, 129; perpetuation of, 8; in policy, 48, 55; as public health crisis, 163; in South, 41; structural, 119; systemic, 23, 159–160, 182
- redlining, 12, 23, 26–27, 42–44, 48, 176. See also segregation
- Reitman v. Mulkey, 41
- reparations, 17, 48, 188–190
- Report on Disproportionate African American Child Deaths, 18, 26–27
- Reynolds, Marion, 31
- RFDC. See Roberts Family Development Center (RFDC)
- Rice, Tamir, 120
- Rickford, Russell, 56
- River Oaks Campaign, 29–33
- Roberts, Derrell, 59
- Roberts, Tina, 59, 191
- Roberts Family Development Center (RFDC), 58–59, 92, 96, 106
- Robertson, Carole, 128
- Rodney King uprising, 46
- Rose, Jackie, 147–155
- Rose Family Empowerment Center (RFCE), 147
- Rowe-Manns, De’Sean, 83
- Ruff, Matt, 6–7
- Rumford, W. Byron, 38
- Rumford Act, 38–41
- Sacramento, California, 1–5, 8–9, 19; African American population, 28; origins of segregation in, 27; postwar migration and, 28–33
- Sacramento Area Youth Speaks (SAYS), 62–63, 66–68, 72, 75, 166
- Sacramento Blue Ribbon Commission, 4, 18, 20, 117–118, 124
- Sacramento Committee for Fair Housing (SCFH), 37–38, 39
- Sanchez, Sonia, 8
- SAYS. See Sacramento Area Youth Speaks (SAYS)
- SCFH. See Sacramento Committee for Fair Housing (SCFH)
- school failure, 56–60. See also education
- school suspensions, 54–56
- SC-RAACD. See Steering Committee on Reduction of African American Child Deaths (RAACD)
- Second Great Migration, 28, 42–44
- segregation: effects of, 41–42; Fair Housing Ordinance and, 33–34; Ming v. Horgan, 34–37; origins of, in Sacramento, 27; racial steering and, 38; school, 53; urban crisis and, 41–42. See also redlining
- Segundo, Vanessa, 11, 131–139
- Serna, Phil, 4, 115–124
- Shule Jumamose, 12, 57–58
- Sierra Health Foundation, 6, 11–13, 89, 91, 94, 105–106, 126
- Simmons, Les, 191
- Sistalect, 106
- slavery, 65, 188–189
- social capital, 93, 174–175
- Sojourner, Damion, 56
- South Sacramento Christian Center, 106
- Steering Committee on Reduction of African American Child Deaths (SC-RAACD), 5, 18–19, 19, 43, 119, 133, 170, 172, 181
- Steinberg, Darryl, 129
- Stewart, Chris, 4
- St. HOPE Academy, 58
- Stop WOKE Act, 190
- Student Voices, 145–146
- suffering, 89
- suspensions, in schools, 54–56
- swag, 174
- United States Housing Authority (USHA), 29–30
- Urban League, 106
- USHA. See United States Housing Authority (USHA)
- War on Drugs, 47
- Watson, Vajra M., 1–9, 11, 111–113, 115–124, 147–155, 170–185, 187–193
- We Are an African People (Rickford), 56
- Weber, Shirley, 190
- wellness, 13, 162–165, 192
- Wenger, Etienne, 97
- Wesley, Cynthia, 128
- whiteness, 7, 56, 60
- white supremacy, 3, 6–8, 120, 144, 187, 190
- Williams, Elmo, 32, 35
- Winn, Lawrence “Torry,” 11–14, 17–24, 53–60, 140–146, 170–185
- Winn, Maisha, 11, 17–24, 125–130, 172, 188
- Wisconsin, 54
- Wolf, Janet, 85, 87
- Zehr, Howard, 22–23