These Sixth-Graders Are Recreating Classic Book Covers for Black History Month
Terrance Sims is getting creative this Black History Month. A sixth-grade teacher, Sims and his students recreated classic book covers written by famous Black historical figures. “Our scholars pay...
View ArticleHere’s Why President Trump’s Tweets About ‘The Squad’ Are Nothing New for...
On Sunday, the 45th president of the United States told four congresswomen of color to “go back” to the countries from which they came. ….and viciously telling the people of the United States, the...
View ArticleHere’s What I Told My Black Students to Remember Now That Trump Is President
The morning after the election, Philadelphia was fresh off a six-day public transit strike. Now our students, who had demonstrated high levels of grit and resilience to get to school despite the lack...
View ArticleBlack Families Have a Long History of Using School Choice as Resistance to...
National School Choice Week is an independent public awareness effort spotlighting effective education options for children, including traditional public schools, public charter schools, magnet...
View ArticleRapper Vic Mensa Gets Real About Being Branded ‘Black’ and the...
Vic Mensa wants to be the voice of Chicago. That means speaking out against gun violence, the drug trade and other issues that have found the 24-year-old rapper’s hometown in national headlines. One...
View ArticleWe Can’t All Be Sojourner Truth But We Can All Make Our Mark
When we think about Black history, most of us think about the marches, protests and dignified resolve of our civil rights heroes. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks have become beloved symbols...
View ArticleIndependence Has Always Been a Day Late and a Dollar Short for Black People,...
On June 19, 1865, two years after Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation freeing (only) some of the enslaved, Union Major General Gordon Granger, rode into Galveston, Texas and announced: The...
View ArticleWhy Waste Time With School, Just Send Black Kids Right to Jail
Outrage: Just Send Black Kids Right to Jail Clinton Stanley Sr. couldn’t understand. “You deny a kid an education on his hair?” This was Clinton Stanley Sr.’s response when his 6-year-old son was...
View ArticleLet’s Make This Juneteenth Our Collective Independence Day
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...
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The Government Is Still Preventing the Rise of the Black Messiah in Schools...
I was gifted an advanced screening of “Judas and the Black Messiah” earlier this week and it affirmed just how much education equals power, while simultaneously being a threat to “power.” I’m about to...
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