Young Black Male Educators in Community at BMEC

Why the Black Male Educator Conference Matters More Than Ever: A Decade of Community, Culture, & Liberation

A decade of BMEC: how 100 Black male educators grew into 2,000, building community, public voice, and resistance amid attacks on Black students and teachers.

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Diverse students in a middle school classroom with typical posters and decorations on the walls. Students are sitting in perfect rows with their hands folded on top of the desks and wearing dark gray blindfolds with the word "COMPLIANCE" written across the blindfold in red.

The War On Truth Begins In the Classroom

We live in an age when truth has been replaced by performance. Modern schooling trains students to perform comprehension rather than seek understanding. Reclaiming clarity may be our last act of intellectual freedom.

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Female student of color reading the Bible in a school classroom

This Is Ground Zero in the Conservative Quest for More Patriotic and Christian Public Schools

Oklahoma’s schools reveal how a second Trump term could reshape public education—more Christian, more patriotic, and far less “woke.”

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Diverse group of teachers with serious expressions, looking at the camera

American Education Has Never Been Neutral Ground

As book bans and censorship spread, leaders must decide: protect comfort or defend truth? History shows progress comes from courage in education.

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Brightbeam CEO Chris Stewart with high school culinary students at @1st Century Charter School in Gary, Indiana

Life Fell Apart For Me. It Won’t For Them.

Career and technical education transforms decay into opportunity, giving students the skills, confidence, and futures they deserve.

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Posters are displayed in a Los Angeles Unified high school health education classroom in 2018. The Trump administration told 40 states to remove references to gender identity from a federally funded sex ed program and stripped California of its funding when it refused to do so. (Frederic J. Brown / AFP via Getty Images)

Trump Administration Threatens to Cut Sex Ed Funding in 40 States Over Gender Identity Lessons

The Trump administration is pressuring 40 states to cut gender identity from sex ed or risk losing federal funds for vulnerable teens.

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Young, Black, male teacher sitting at a table in a classroom teaching students.

When Education Becomes the Battlefield

Education today is a battlefield. Book bans, attacks on history, and efforts to erase memory are all tactics used to silence the truth. If education is to matter, it must be practiced as freedom, not silence.

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Black school children in NOLA with a blue overlay next to a photo of the flood damage caused by Hurricane Katrina

No Idea Too Radical: Inside New Orleans’ Dramatic K-12 Turnaround After Katrina

Two decades after Hurricane Katrina forced the reboot of New Orleans’ schools, academics, and college-going are up, but racial divides persist.

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Camino Nuevo Charter Academy CEO Adriana Abich at Camino Nuevo Charter Academy Sandra Cisneros Campus in Los Angeles.

‘So Many Threats to Kids’: ICE Fear Grips Los Angeles At Start of New School Year

Federal immigration raids in Los Angeles are scaring families away from school, and the new year hasn’t even started yet.

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