Our education justice group had an intense and powerful discussion with student leaders from Frederick Douglass High School about everything from metal detectors in schools, to the need for more faculty of color, to discipline policies, to the Baltimore uprising and the criminalization of black students in schools. Students at Douglass had been accused of starting the uprising and were surrounded by the National Guard for weeks. They are surveilled at all times by the police state, and are forbidden from going to the Mandawmin Mall across the street. The late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall is an alum from 1925. One of our students said, “It was like looking in the mirror, I could be one of the students we met today.” #lreiJRtrip #edujustice#staywoke