Belief Gap

Why We Need Black Men (and Women) to Answer the Call and Teach

(This article was intially posted in 2016 and has been updated 12/10/25) Our situation as a people is too critical and precarious to afford us...

LETTER TO THE CLASS OF 2025: Walk Onto Campus Insane With Courage

To the Extraordinary High School Class of 2025, Words cannot fully express how proud I am of all that you’ve accomplished. You’ve worked relentlessly. You’ve...

What Malcolm X Taught Me About Education

Malcolm X would have turned 100 years old tomorrow, May 19, 2025. The reflections and honoring of Malcolm's birthday and legacy is worldwide, and...

Teaching Behind the Lines: Fugitive Leadership and the Limits of Professionalism in Education

“Many of us use the idea that ‘I am a professional’ as an excuse to not become humanly concerned or politically concerned with our...

Freedom Teaching During Oppressive Times

In Dr. Jarvis Givens' book Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching, he details stories of Black teachers circumventing, what...

For The (School) Culture

An overused (and even annoying) word or phrase I am used to hearing is “the culture.” What is the culture? Really, what is it I...

Villains in the Eyes of Injustice: Why Black Educators Who Teach Truth Are Feared

Throughout American history, Black educators who dare to teach truth have found themselves thrust into the center of a societal storm, vilified as boogeymen...

Black Organizations and Philanthropists Are Secretly Meeting to Create a Plan for Radically Changing Public Schools

Theodore Roosevelt famously said: “Do what you can, with what you’ve got, where you are.” According to a message I just received, some of our most...

The Role of Our Fathers in Developing the Next Generation of Readers and Dreamers

Dr.  Nosakhere Griffin-El is a former student of mine at John P. Turner Middle School. He is dedicated to increasing the literacy rates of...
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