Anthony Graham

North Carolina’s public schools need teachers of color. How will the state recruit and retain them?

BY: - December 9, 2020

Data show that more than half of public school children are nonwhite, but only 21% of teachers are. As a young boy growing up in Kinston, Anthony Graham, saw well intentioned Samaritans flow into Eastern North Carolina after strong hurricanes battered the coast and inland regions. For a brief time, Graham said, they provided an invaluable and welcomed safety net for people in his community, some of whom had lost everything in the destructive storms.