Lisa D. Delpit is an American educator and author. She spent her childhood years on Lettsworth St. in "Old South Baton Rouge," the first black settlement in the city. The house in which she lived as a child was built next to the "Chicken Shack," a community restaurant that her father started with 46¢ in his pocket. Much of her young life was spent in the kitchen with her … [Read more...] about Friday Open Thread: Prominent Black Educators
Lisa Delpit
Friday Open Thread- Influential Black Educators
Lisa Delpit is an American educationalist and author. She is also an Eminent Scholar and Executive Director of the Center for Urban Educational Excellence at Florida International University in Miami, Florida and Felton G. Clark's first Distinguished Professor at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Lisa Delpit spent her childhood years on Lettsworth St. in … [Read more...] about Friday Open Thread- Influential Black Educators