anti-racism

For first-generation college students, having to overcome some adversity is often a common shared experience. Despite the challenges we have faced, being a

When parents have to work two or even three jobs at a time to make ends meet, their schedule is stretched tight. Many times they can’t be present at mornin

On a hot day before the end of the school year, I sat in my classroom with Wajid, a tall and reedy senior who had immigrated to the United States five year

It’s been nearly a 100 years since a race riot in 1921 destroyed the Black Wall Street in the Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa, Okhlahoma. And although much

I should read more than I do. Everyone should. I think we’d be better off as a nation and a species if we all read more. Teachers have a unique role in fos

I always thought I was super smart. Until I got to college. Even though I lived in Englewood, one of Chicago’s toughest neighborhoods, I attended accelerat

The other day I had the honor of attending a luncheon and panel discussion about our failure to provide equitable schooling here in Illinois. It was an imp

I grew up in Queens (St. Albans), New York, and attended Andrew Jackson High School in the early ’90s. My family, who migrated to New York from the island

But don’t begin until you count the cost. For who would begin construction of a building without first calculating the cost… —Luke 14:28 The first time I