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The Real Struggle is Building the Schools Black Children Deserve

"Black parents are left deciding which cost we are willing to ask our children to bear." A Black mother wrote that the morning after...

Are We Looking for Oppression Where There Is None?

One of my students recently wrote something in a weekly reading reflection that has stayed with me. We had been reading Gholdy Muhammad’s work...

Which Struggle Will We Fight for the Education of Black Children?

Nikole Hannah-Jones wrote a sentence on Sunday that belongs on the wall of every school that serves Black children. Ten years ago she put...

Stay Woke and Watch Your Back

My Aunt Maryam never let us leave her presence without the same farewell: "Stay woke and watch your back. Ma'a Salaamah." She was our matriarch....

When Institutions Become Uncomfortable

One of the recurring stories in Black educational life is the departure of people who seemed indispensable while they were here. Not the disengaged...

Teaching Is Leading

A love letter to the young people we're inviting into the classroom To the young person reading this — whether an auntie sent it to...

Black Women Made Me the Educator I Am, Now the System Pushes Them Out

I became an effective teacher faster than I had any right to. I did not do that alone. I was carried, coached, and corrected...

Education Must Do More Than Prepare Black Children To Survive

My mother introduced me to conversations about racism, injustice, power, and the contradictions of American society when I was still young. A lot of...

Black History Cannot Be “Optional”

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” Those words from George Orwell are not theory for me. I’ve...
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