I refer to the month of June as freedom month. Summer begins and we celebrate Juneteenth, Father’s Day, Black Music Appreciation, and Pride month in June. But even with the foundation of what’s taught in Black and brown communities on faith, freedom, and fatherhood, many Black people aren’t able to truly be free. “It’s hard…
The pandemic completely exposed the American public education system as not broken but functioning perfectly to continue the growth of poverty in lower and middle class based communities. A system that continues to label and target our students by race, class, and socioeconomic status is a reflection of how powerful knowledge of the system is….
I remember my days of school as a teacher. I remember walking to my first classroom and thinking how I was walking into my destiny. I was an eager, middle school English/Language Arts teacher. I entered my classroom while singing the words to the “Greatest Love of All.” “I believe the children are our future….
I want to be clear about racism in public schools. Innovation can’t thrive in racist school cultures. If we don’t address the elephant in the room now, innovation won’t thrive in the next decades for generations of Black children. So let’s stop simply giving them the first Black president, Vice President … this, that, and…