The Atlantic In Evanston, Illinois, a Black parent and school-board candidate takes on a curriculum meant to combat racism. April 3, 2021 Mark Edward Atkinson / Christian Monterrosa / Bloomberg / Getty / The Atlantic Ndona Muboyayi wants to improve the education that public-school children, including her son and daughter, receive in Evanston, Illinois, where her mother’s family history goes back five generations. As a candidate for the school board in District 65, which educates children up until eighth grade, she wants to close the academic-achievement gap separating Black and brown students from white ones, help children who need special education, and address what she sees as a lack of support for students whose first language isn’t English. That agenda would be ultra-progressive in many communities. In Evanston, however, Muboyayi is challenging not the right, but the left.