As 2016 came to a close and the haze of an election filled with racism, sexism and xenophobia moves closer to an inaugural reality, walking into a freedom school is no doubt a revitalizing and liberating experience for south Seattle’s youth.
Freedom Schools are a biannual experience organized by American Friends Service Committee and Youth Undoing Institutional Racism at United Church of Christ on Beacon Hill in South Seattle. They are spaces for healing, for collective organization and an immersion into an education that is so often suppressed in our public school systems. ...