Even the Machines Are Racist
Facial Recognition Systems Threaten Black Lives Facial recognition technology promises to alert us if our children are skipping out on ...
Review of Harriet A. Washington’s “A Terrible Thing to Waste”
Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind Published in the LA Review of Books November 26, 2019. Review ...
Locs in the Sweat Lodge: On Shonda Buchanan’s “Black Indian”
Award-winning poet Shonda Buchanan honors multiple literary traditions in her breathtaking new memoir, Black Indian. An educator, freelance writer, and ...
Toni Morrison’s Black Art Spoke in a Nation That Would Silence Us
“To create art amid sorrow or oppression is to insist on excavating meaning from the dull senselessness of pain. It ...
Why I Can’t Bring Myself to Watch “When They See Us”
This is about fear. I can’t watch “When They See Us” … yet I know I must. I have to ...
Educators Can Dismantle Oppression in Their Classrooms. Here’s How.
Young people learn best in classrooms where they feel valued, and where the social and emotional aspects of their development ...
On Mother’s Day, Remember the Mothers of Trayvon, Sandra, and Tamir
Late last month, two police officers in Hugo, Oklahoma, fired bullets into a truck containing four children. Three of the ...
John Singleton Changed How Black America Looked at Itself
Critic’s Notebook: The director’s 'Boyz N the Hood' was a cinematic gamechanger, revealing the horror, beauty and humanity of L.A.’s ...
Skimming the Surface: A Way of Looking at Us
America hates her children. How else can we explain inequities in school funding, the high rate of homeless children, and ...
As We Mourn Notre Dame, Let Us Remember Black Churches Also Matter
When Notre Dame burned, I mourned. A beautiful cathedral, a destination, a sanctuary for quiet invocation, Notre Dame was also ...
From Pre-K On, US Schools Privilege the Already Privileged
The college bribery admissions scandal called “Operation Varsity Blues” has exposed the opportunities for corruption afforded wealthy parents so eager ...
All Schools Should Teach Students That Black Lives Matter
Last week’s Black Lives Matter at School discussed restorative justice, internationalism, Black families and more. “First graders listened to a ...
