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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...

Harriet Elizabeth Brown: Black Educator Hall of Fame

E’ry day this month, Philly’s 7th Ward, in partnership with the Center for Black Educator Development, will highlight a “Black Educator Hall of Famer.“ But, don’t forget, e’ry month...

Dr. Jeanne Noble: Black Educator Hall of Fame

E’ry day this month, Philly's 7th Ward, in partnership with the Center for Black Educator Development, will highlight a “Black Educator Hall of Famer.“ But,...

Bertha Maxwell-Roddey: Black Educator Hall of Fame

E’ry day this month, the Center for Black Educator Development, in partnership with Philly’s 7th Ward, will highlight a "Black Educator Hall of Famer." But, don’t...

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...

Black Children Aren’t Broken. America’s Education System Is

(This post originally ran on Word in Black on 1/6/26) Kasserian Ingera: Are the children alright?  El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, the civil rights leader better known as...

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....

Stop Telling Black Children They Must Be “Twice as Good”

I saw the fallout from Michael B. Jordan’s snub for best actor at the Critics' Choice Awards. One social media post in particular caught...

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