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School Leaders, What are You Doing About Your Schools’ Racial Bias?

It’s 8:45 a.m. on a Tuesday. Do you know where your school’s culture is on the continuum of cultural proficiency? Is it trending towards proficiency or cultural destructiveness? Where (in your...

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McKenna Dunbar Creates Green Jobs, Spreads Black Joy

McKenna Dunbar started college at the University of Richmond intending to major in biochemistry. They planned to become an intellectual property attorney specializing in biotech. But on their very...

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Literacy

VP Candidate Tim Walz is 100% Pro Teacher; Focuses on Science of Reading

Editor's note: This article was updated August 6th, 2024. At the Minnesota capitol in St. Paul, hundreds of people–parents, children, educators, community leaders and elected officials–came together...

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In a Post-Pandemic World, We Must Pay More Attention to Emotions

Two years ago, I learned a new word for what happens when someone simultaneously feels multiple emotions. “Scribble” is what happens when feelings like happiness, nervousness, anxiousness, and...

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What Is Environmental Activism? Youth of Color Creating Justice

Yancey Sanes grew up in the Bronx, and he’s now teaching the borough’s history of environmental activism to GenZ students at the very school he attended, Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom High School. The...

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Cultural Worker Marie Medjine Antoine Plants Seeds of a Green Economy

Cultural worker Marie Medjine Antoine is an environmental activist and intern for RISE St. James, a faith-based environmental justice organization in Louisiana. Antoine couples a degree in sociology...

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