By Tiffanie Drayton | Originally Published at The Frisky. September 22, 2014 12:43 PM EDT I think I may have had a small mental break down last week. I knew it was coming, I was all tight with emotion after some of the responses I received on [...]
Phobias are lethal. This summer’s series of prominent killings of unarmed Black men, Michael Brown being the most covered, have forced me to come to terms with my own fear: I am an arachnophobe. A few nights ago, I noticed a dark spot in my [...]
Chicago’s ‘murder capital’ rep stretches the truth. By Salim Muwakkil | Originally Published at In These Times. August 28, 2014 | During a memorial service on July 20 in Chicago, Audry Miller mourns granddaughter Shamiya Adams, 11, who was killed by a stray bullet. (Photo by Scott [...]
Photograph; Demonstrators supporting protesters in Ferguson, Mo., hold up mirrors to police during a march Wednesday in Oakland. Photo Credit: Scott Strazzante, The Chronicle Beginning at birth we teach our children. We teach them how to talk, how to walk, and how to act when with other [...]
"To teach is to learn twice."~ Joseph Joubert (Moralist. Essayist) What is education? Is it testing? Teaching? Is it the Common Core Curriculum? Is it the possibility of opting-out? Is education the search for wisdom? And what about the children? Where might they be in [...]
What are we doing to our children? Why might it be that white teens are free to plan for proms, High School graduation, the anticipation that comes when you go off to college, while our Black babies ponder, "If the cops gun me down, which image would [...]
Lesley McSpadden, left, is comforted by her husband, Louis Head, after her 18-year-old son, Michael Brown, was shot and killed by police in the middle of the street in Ferguson, Mo., near St. Louis on Saturday, Aug. 9, 2014. A spokesman with the St. Louis County Police [...]
By Bree Ervin @thinkbanned | Originally Published at Think Banned Thoughts. August 7, 2014 · 1:09 PM | Photograph Source YWCA/ Just a quickie before I dash out the door - I’m on my way to an interview that has me thinking about violence – a [...]
Do our school children get enough sleep? Do they get enough to eat? Are they ready for days of stringent testing? By the time our children arrive at school they are tired and weary. Their eyes are teary. In every moment of their young lives they live [...]
