anti-racism

Every family should have the right to a good school for their kids. But it turns out that if you’re Black and low-income in Oakland, you have to organize a

In my current role as an assistant professor of practice at a graduate school of education, one of the things I try to impart to new teachers is the import

Outrage: Black Kids Are Dumb, Poor and Incapable of Success Do y’all remember the line from “The Color Purple,” “I’m poor, I’m Black…I may even be ugly.

Nearly 60 years ago, our nation’s students watched as leaders of the civil rights movement pushed back against entrenched Jim Crow laws and re-defined Amer

My son is a freshman in high school and this felt like my first report card pick up all over again. While I have access to all his grades and consistent pr

On this day in Montgomery, Alabama, 63 years ago, Black people strategically rebelled against one of White supremacy’s ‘systems.’ That day, Black folks got

I have attended a lot of educator conferences this year. A common theme I heard over and over again is the challenge of teacher shortages. I decided to do

Here’s the scene. There’s a movement of Black education advocates afoot. It’s built on the shoulders of the Black-led movements that preceded it, and it’s

When I became a history teacher, my job was to help students think for themselves: to look at multiple perspectives and to make sound and reasoned judgemen