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Matt Lauer. Harvey Weinstein. Bill Cosby. Charlie Rose. Garrison Keillor. The list just keeps growing. But for every celebrity who has been fired or sued f

I am a gifted and talented specialist for a school district in New Jersey. It is my job to make sure that students receive the proper level of acceleration

Two weeks before Thanksgiving, I watched a segment on Chicago’s WGN Morning News where two youth told their stories about homelessness. Something changed i

I was at a world education conference earlier this month in the tiny Middle Eastern country of Qatar when the queen of that oil-rich state blasted “fake ne

If you’re an underdog kind of kid in Chicago, and you want to go to college and graduate, your chances of success are better now than they were 20 years ag

During my time in school, I only had two Black teachers and they were both female, one in the fifth grade and the other in seventh grade. I never saw mysel

I write from a place of privilege today. I have never once worried about the safety of my three children at school. The victim of the fatal school stabbing

Last week, the Chicago Sun-Times released an article announcing that Chicago native, rapper and actor, Common, was financially backing an arts-focused char

Being misgendered feels like getting stabbed in the back, even when people don’t do it on purpose. I’ve learned to live with that pain, it’s something I ex