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Dr. Eve L. Ewing is an associate professor in the Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity at the University of Chicago and the author of four books including Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism, an examination of how America’s education system has created and perpetuated racial hierarchies, and offers a path forward by imagining public school as a public good. Ewing has also published the poetry collections Electric Arches and 1919, the nonfiction work Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side, and a novel for young readers, Maya and the Robot. She is the co-author (with Nate Marshall) of the play No Blue Memories: The Life of Gwendolyn Brooks and has written several projects for Marvel Comics, including the Ironheart series, Black Panther, and the forthcoming Exceptional X-Men.
On July 7th, 2025, Ewing spoke to Shereen Marisol Meraji, a professor at UC Berkeley’s School of Journalism.
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