The Take
Black Teachers Offer Our Black Children Something Others Can’t: Empathy
I don’t have an overwhelming need to surround my kids with people who look just like them. I believe that kids should be familiar with all types of people, customs, and cultures. Children’s perceptions of other people and cultures should not be solely from the...
The Denver Teachers Strike by the Numbers
With a tentative agreement in place following a marathon bargaining session and three days of striking, Denver educators returned to their classrooms today. The teacher strike makes Denver the latest city to see educators hitting the picket line as a wave of similar...
The Great Blackface Reckoning of 2019
America, we need to talk. Not one, not two, but THREE elected officials in Virginia are knee-deep in blackface controversies at this very moment. Ralph Northam, the Democratic governor of the state denies that he appears in a now-viral image from his yearbook page of...
While We’re Obsessed with White People in Blackface the Nation’s Schools Are Killing Black Minds
Another day, another politician with blackface in his past. If you are keeping track, three top elected officials in Virginia have been busted for old photos showing them engaging in blackface. Let’s put gas in the outrage machine and crank it up. Here’s a question...
All These Scandals Are Exhausting, Can Ralph “Shoe Polish on My Face” Northam Just Resign?
Since the beginning of #45’s term, I have ended too many days literally exhausted from hearing about the most recent lack of leadership, daily fiasco, cover-ups and deflection, that I have decided to settle my spirit by letting it all go, and simply saying to...Recent Posts
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