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Interview in April 2026 by Claire Kelley, Seven Stories Press, with Jonathan Kozol author of We Shall Not Bow Down: Children of Color Under Siege, An Invocation to Resistance. You have long argued that educational inequality is not inevitable but the result of political decisions. Why do you think the idea that inequality is “natural”
