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The Lesson Educators Can Take From Colin Kaepernick’s Activism

The release of Colin Kaepernick's autobiography, The Perilous Fight, provides an opportunity to revisit his protest of the national anthem 10 years ago. In...

A Birthday Message for Teach For America

Wendy Kopp started Teach For America with a question she asked as a Princeton senior: why weren't graduates being recruited to teach in urban...

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...

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....

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