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Great Teachers Allow Black Parents To Breathe

With summer underway and students settled into break, it is worth recognizing the deep sigh of relief for Black families at this time of...

Every Land Is Galveston and Every Day Is Juneteenth

There is a version of Juneteenth that America prefers. It is the tidy one. The one that says enslaved Black people in Texas simply did...

The Most Powerful Person at a School Board Meeting Is You

The most powerful person at a school board meeting is not the board president or the superintendent. It is each member of the public whose...

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...

If We Ask Black Athletes To Take a Stand, Are We Doing the Same?

The NAACP is calling for Black athletes and fans to boycott public universities in states attacking Black voting representation. On its face, it seems...

Most People Know Almost Nothing About School Boards, That’s Not Okay

It’s probably a safe bet that you do not know what your school board accomplished this past year or what their priorities are. Typically, school...

Teachers Must Plant Seeds of Truth, Even as the System Fights It

Not long ago, I was in a conversation with a veteran social studies teacher preparing a lesson on Reconstruction who asked me a question...

Mega Corporations Can Afford A Small Tax To Benefit Our Students

Some people are fired up about a one-dollar tax on ride-share trips in Philadelphia. Uber and Lyft are counting on that outrage. They are...
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