anti-racism

The current global pandemic has challenged the concept of America’s exceptionalism. As we struggle with COVID-19, we are also uncomfortably grappling with

The angry protestors are coming for public statues of historic Americans as diverse as Confederate traitors like Robert E. Lee and slave-owning American fo

“You can be anything you want to be when you grow up!” That’s what we tell our kids, and we encourage them to do well in school so those big dreams can com

My family was supposed to move back South this summer. That was the plan as soon as we left back in 2017.  I will never forget the day my life changed. Sit

Last Sunday educators, students, and families marched in Philadelphia demanding a long overdue anti-racist action in the city’s schools, insisting that ant

This week, the school reopening conversation is largely about when we reopen schools. Some people, including our president, want schools to reopen widely,

When I ran for school board it was the former Minneapolis mayor who was the first elected official to endorse me. She asked me a lot of questions, offered

As educators, and also as community members, parents, and learners, the undersigned 2018 Teachers of the Year, rise in solidarity with Black Lives Matter a

I almost forgot we were stuck at home. My daughter’s pre-K class was on a field trip to the zoo through a Zoom meeting and I could hear kids oohing and awi