Diversity
This World Should Break Your Heart
Love has never been a popular movement. And no one's ever wanted, really, to be free. The world is held together, really it is held together, by the love and the passion of a very few people....
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1972 Gary Declaration Was A Call For Equality That Remains Unanswered
More than five decades ago, some 10,000 Black leaders gathered for the National Black Political Convention in Gary, Indiana. What came to be known as the Gary Convention of 1972 was an inflection...
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Banning Race-Conscious Education Undermines the Science of Good Teaching
The Department of Education's new mandate banning race-conscious programs exposes a dangerous contradiction in American education. While teachers are expected — or, more factually, required — to...
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Racial CrossFit Exercise for Black History Month: Study White Racism
"If you teach the Negro that he has accomplished as much good as any other race he will aspire to equality and justice without regard to race. Such an effort would upset the program of the oppressor...
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The Anti-DEI Crowd is Anti-Black Educator
Every child deserves an excellent education—every child. That’s a principle, presumably, no one would argue with, and I’ve spent my entire career working toward it. Yet, critiques of culturally...
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Reset Your Algorithm, Reset Your Biases By Following These Education Activists
Hey, white educators, stop your doom-scrolling and reset your algorithm in a way that can reduce your biases. If you follow Black teachers and education activists, I promise several things will...
