I first experienced homelessness with my family, then on my own. I was born to a single mother and a father who was absent because of post-traumatic stress disorder he developed after the war....
It's 5:45 a.m. on a Monday in mid-August. The year is 2006 and my mom is rapping on my bedroom door. “Julien! Time to get up Ju, you have school in an hour,” my mom says as I rise out of the bed...
My learning this year has been greatly assisted by a number of students willing to be honest with me. One of them, Alec, is the kind of kid teachers love to have. He will take a random idea or...
I know there are a lot of interpretations of Childish Gambino’s new single “This is America” and what it all means, but here’s how I think it relates to the horror of school shootings and the short...
I arrived to this country as a refugee three years ago and Ms. Brandy Moore welcomed me at Central High School with kindness and support. I am from the Congo and I spent years in a refugee camp in...
I was born in Congo in 1994 in the war that killed 5 million people. My family migrated to Rwanda to a refugee camp where I spent the first 18 years of my life. At the end of my time there, I gave...
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