In my AP African American Studies classroom, my students brought what some scholars refer to as the inner curriculum: a first person perspective focusing on the mind, body, emotions and embodied perception as a counterbalance to traditional subject matter. After the summer reading assignment...

Asma Khalid has written a beautiful, painful essay in The Atlantic, titled “Islamophobia Has Corroded American Values.” She tells of bullet holes found in her Indiana masjid’s window three...