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Educators, Social Justice Is About Consistent Action, Not Simply When It’s Trending On Social Media

January 20, 2021
by Rann Miller
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Since the murder of Trayvon Martin in 2012, activists and stakeholders of the Black community have done the yeoman’s work of highlighting all murders of Black people at the hands of the state (police) and domestic terrorists...

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To All the White Allies Seeking to Become Co-Conspirators, Here Are Things to Think About

July 14, 2020
by Kim Smith
4 min read
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George Floyd, gasping for air, uttered a desperate final plea that was heard around the world: “I can’t breathe.” The image of a black man dying under the knee of a white cop is horrific — and symbolic of the racism...

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Gianna Was Right, Her Daddy Changed the World

June 26, 2020
by Kelisa Wing
5 min read
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Four weeks ago, a Black man was lynched. In 2020.  I remind myself of that fact each day so that I do not forget what we saw, what happened—that we witnessed a man take his last breath. In the days following, we watched...

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An Open Letter to Teachers Who Began Teaching During the American Spring

June 23, 2020
by Sharif El-Mekki
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Dear Freedom School Literacy Team 2020, Across the nation, we started the summer of 2020, lighting up the streets with rage. We rage for George Floyd’s senseless strangulation. We rage for Ahmaud Arbery, who was hunted...

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Juneteenth Is My Independence Day

June 19, 2020
by Kelisa Wing
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As I look at the world right now, I see a lot of belief statements and acknowledgment of past hurts—a reckoning to finally accept that we have much work to do as a nation where it pertains to racism and social justice. Some of...

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