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Recruiting More Teachers Won’t Fix A Broken Education System

On January 30, 2026, the Philadelphia Citywide Talent Coalition announced a $200,000 recruitment campaign to help fill nearly 2,000 projected teacher vacancies for the...

Philly’s Grassroots Leadership in Black History Education

One hundred years ago, Carter G. Woodson intervened in the American historical imagination by insisting that Black life must be studied with rigor and...

How Streamer Kai Cenat’s Reading Journey Can Inspire Black Boys to Read

We are in a national reading crisis, and Kai Cenats' "reading journey" has the potential to inspire Black boys to engage in the reading...

What MLK Taught Us About Trump’s White Victimhood Claim

Donald Trump recently stated that civil rights protections have resulted in white Americans being “very badly treated.” The sentence does more than express grievance....

When White Supremacists Spread Lies, We Must Spread Truth

My Grandmom, "Sissy" (God rest her soul) used to have a saying for people who said something stupid—your grandmother probably said something similar also....

Neo-Colonizers and the ‘Scramble for the Black Mind’

2025 marks the anniversaries of some of our most empowering moments as a people. It is the 160th anniversary of the passage of the...

The Reality of Mass School Closures for Black and Brown Families

Schools are more than just a place where students go to learn. They’re community anchors. Of course, their primary functions revolve around educational activities....

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...

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