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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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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Energy Convertors x Lodestar fellows, Lodestar Principal Latora Baldridge and Energy Convertors staff pose for a group photo at the FIA Raise the Bar Awards on September 18, 2025 in Oakland, CA. From left: Dr. Charles Cole, IIi; Latora Baldridge; Cameron Mercado; Juana Martin-Calmo; KeAndre Jones; Ryan Phillips

From Data to Agency: How Oakland Students Are Becoming Leaders in Their Own Education

Energy Convertors empowers Oakland students to analyze data, build agency, and drive real change in their schools.

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Donald Trump holding up an executive order signed with a Sharpie

Half of the States Won’t Comply with Trump’s Push to Defund Schools Over DEI

Trump’s recent “Dear Colleague” letter threatens school funding over DEI in discipline. Half of the states refuse to comply, sparking lawsuits and legal pushback.

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Garrett Bucks displaying his certificate after successfully completing Oklahoma's anti-woke teacher test

I Passed the Oklahoma Anti-Woke Teacher Certification Test

Public schools run on quiet miracles, not culture war distractions. A parent’s view on back-to-school and Oklahoma’s “big dumb test.”

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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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Happy African American student and her friends communicating while leaving the classroom after the lecture.

Our Kids Flourish at a Diversity-by-Design School

We intentionally chose a school that promotes diversity, equity, inclusion, culturally relevant education, and empathy for our kids. They’re flourishing.

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Cast of the musical Suffs with Ida B. Wells at the center.

The Suffragettes Were Not Allies to Black Women, They Were Racist

The 19th Amendment didn’t free all women. Black women were betrayed by white suffragettes who chose racism over equality. Here’s the truth.

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