I posted a New York Times article on Facebook yesterday that said Black people still face redlining in housing due to longstanding bank lending practices. My friend Derrell Bradford responded by saying "Yeah....but....neighborhood schools......" Allow me to break the...
A viral video showing two Black men being surrounded by police officers and eventually arrested and removed from a Philadelphia Starbucks for "trespassing" has captured the attention of the nation. In response to the incident, the Starbucks CEO has called the arrest...
When my wife and I moved to Crown Heights, it felt like a perfect choice. We had met in New York City almost fifteen years before, her occupying a studio apartment in Bed-Stuy, me packed in a 400 square foot three-bedroom apartment with a couple of college friends. We...
Conservatives are deathly afraid that the activism inspired by survivors of the tragic school schooting in Parkland, Florida is working and will lead to their beloved guns being taken away. That's the only thing I can come up with, as I wonder what would lead any...
Fifty years ago America was shaken by the news that Dr. Martin Luther King had been killed cut down by a bullet in Memphis, Tennessee, cutting his life short. Today, I don’t know what we do with that information. It’s too brutal an occasion to raise it up as an...
It would take you a few minutes of scanning my years of writing about education to conclude I’m pretty tough on teachers. Because of that, you might be surprised about what I write next. Watching teachers in Oklahoma and other states protest for their right to...
It never really dawned on me that a portion of my life is contained in a history book somewhere. I just never considered myself old enough to have been a part of integration. But I was. I am a member of the first class of Black students that integrated Atwood McDonald...
The first time someone called me a “kike,” I was twelve years old. I was on a family vacation in Florida, and the offender was an older white kid in a video arcade. Between his turns hugging the curves of a first-person motorcycle game, he informed me that he didn’t...
Linda Brown, who was the center of the landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case that abolished school segregation, has passed away at the age of 75....
Citizen Education recently held a Twitter chat based on our belief that our children are #KidsNotCriminals and to discuss the state of school discipline issues and what successful reform would look like. We had a great collection of stakeholders in education come...
