TC Alumna Tara L. Conley Reflects on Toni Morrison's Passing and Home for Bloomberg

August 2019, Teachers College, Columbia University. Alumna Tara L. Conley (Ed.D '16) grew up in Elyria, Ohio, five miles and across a bridge from Lorain, the childhood home of the late, much celebrated novelist Toni Morrison. In an opinion piece for “CityLab,” Conley, an assistant professor in the School of Communication and Media at Montclair State University, asserts that Donald Trump’s presidency has changed their shared world from diverse working-class communities that Morrison called “neither plantation nor ghetto” – and where, in Conley’s words racism “wasn’t talked about so much as it was quietly experienced” – to one where, in her view, the Trump banners on white lawns signify a more overt divide. Read more at Teachers College, Columbia University Newsroom