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Teaching is Nation-Building: A Love Letter to Former Students Turned Current Educators

Glad tidings arrived a couple weeks ago. Fatima Ponzo — a former student we watched grow up in our school community at Shoemaker Campus...

You Should Hold Both Convictions and Questions About This World

As I enter into my 45th year of life, I have been thinking about how little we actually know about this existence while being...

Students Feel the Aura of Real Black History

In my AP African American Studies classroom, my students brought what some scholars refer to as the inner curriculum: a first person perspective focusing...

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....

“American Values” Can’t Corrode Because They Never Truly Existed

Asma Khalid has written a beautiful, painful essay in The Atlantic, titled “Islamophobia Has Corroded American Values.” She tells of bullet holes found in...

Bonnets and Durags Are Not the Enemy, and Not Worth the Hot Takes

"What and who is your true enemy?"— a question my parents asked me my whole life The Tuskegee dress code has been our timeline the...

Black Studies Vs. White Grievance Culture

I was recently thinking about source texts that every student of Black Studies should read at least once. Not because they are sacred. Not...

Justice Delayed (For Our Youth) Is Justice Denied

NOTE: This post was originally written in July, 2026, before additional news broke about charges in this case. A boy went to football practice at...

Students, Families, and Educators Should Decide the Future of AI in Schools

Artificial intelligence is moving into schools quickly. In places with available resources, it is arriving through district-approved platforms. In others, it is entering quietly...

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