I attended Overbrook High School as the new kid, transferring from a small middle school in Qom, Iran. I went from a tight-knit “foreign” school community into a massive neighborhood high school that, at the time, held thousands of students. I left Overbrook with...

Here’s how (systemic) racism works.  African people were taken from their homes and brought to what would become the United States to be enslaved, where they’re severely punished for learning...