I was a principal at Mastery Charter School-Shoemaker in Philadelphia for many years. We took to heart the concept of windows and mirrors, decorating...
It’s October, almost seven months into a pandemic that has turned the world upside down. Since the shutdowns in March, folks have adapted; businesses...
Growing up in the African-American community, one becomes intimately familiar with numerous time-honored phrases and colloquialisms. One such phrase was introduced to me as...
Education has never been something that has been valued in the United States as evidenced by our nation’s leaders continually cutting the education budget....
Black Lives Matter, but Black Bodies Get Beaten
I attended a Catholic pre-school; the teachers and the director were nuns. It was the 1980s, meaning...
Guilty Pleasure.
One of my new found guilty pleasures is creating content on the 8 Black Hands Podcast @8blackhand1 (on twitter). Each of us has our strengths, and...