Mellody Hobson, president of Ariel Investments, explains in this TED Talk why we need to talk about race rather than being "color blind."

Sixty years ago this Saturday, the U.S. Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education struck down racial segregation in schools.Despite that vital step, schools did not then necessarily create environments that gave equal opportunities to all students.

In his essay below, SEED Leader and school administrator Alvin Crawley offers his thoughts on how SEED helped create systemic change in his school district to address the racial achievement gap.

This Saturday is the 60th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down racial segregation in schools. That was a vital moment in the history of racial justice, but did not necessarily lead to schools offering a multiculturally equitable education for all students. SEED Leader Bernadette Anand reflects below on how, 20 years after her town's board of education was told to integrate its schools, her English department used SEED to help create "a change from race-separated levels of grouping to a heterogeneously textured World Literature ninth grade course."