Black and brown children need great schools. They needed them throughout history, and they need them today. Access to great schools, across time and geography, has been punishingly rare. So it’s...
"This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair. No place for self-pity. No need for silence. No room for fear." – Toni Morrison This year marks the 35th anniversary...
“He knows that every time this happens he’s moved just a little closer to that darkness outside. The darkness outside is what the old folks have been talking about. It’s what they’ve come from. It’s...
Teaching The Now As Sacred Sometimes, when I walk into a classroom or sit in a circle with educators or students, I remind myself: This is sacred work. Not just because it’s important, but because...
It wasn’t so long ago that countless Black women were tasked with caring for white children. Nannies, maids, caretakers, these were the jobs available primarily to Black women. Black men, meanwhile,...
Proposals to eliminate the Department of Education (ED) have been a Republican talking point since Ronald Reagan first suggested it in the early 1980s. The Trump administration’s executive order to...
