anti-racism

A few weeks ago, I attended a conference called Educator Summit in Philadelphia. I’m not much of a conference attendee and didn’t know exactly what to expe

A growing number of people are outraged by our current immigration debacle involving refugees on the southern border of the United States: children in conc

If we have really well-prepared young people who are going to the exact college they want to go to, who will graduate from college within six years with li

Because we want our children and grandchildren to be ready for college, NAACP members like me have chosen tuition-free public charter schools. But instead

As an advocate for equity in public education, I joined the NAACP, and eventually became the education chair for Southwest Riverside County. I believed I w

Congresswoman Ayana Pressley said, “We don’t need any more Brown faces that don’t want to be a Brown voice” in regards to representation on issues that imp

My professional life changed the day I discovered the power of a well-considered Twitter feed. No longer stuck in the bubble of my school or district, I wa

The other day I watched the documentary True Justice: Bryan Stevenson’s Fight for Equality.  https://twitter.com/eji_org/status/1143251611801804800 Now if

This Wednesday, the California Senate’s Education Committee will hold a public hearing on a bill that would make local school districts the primary authori