By Elizabeth Broadbent | Originally Published at Manic Pixie Dream Mama. August 17, 2014 What if my son was black? How would you see this picture? As the ongoing events in Ferguson, Missouri show us, America’s racial tensions didn’t disappear when George Wallace backed down [...]
By Roya Wolverson @royawolverson | Originally Published at Quartz. August 16, 2014 The first time I saw an infant at a raucous concert in Brooklyn, NY, I was shocked. I was in my late 20s and had had it with the abrasive noise and spilled beer after [...]
By Blair L.M. Kelley | Originally Published at The Root. August 14, 2014 6:32 PM | Photograph; Michael Brown | Facebook In Dred Scott’s America—in the same part of Missouri where Brown was killed—black Americans were denied rights and their future. That’s not far off from what [...]
You might want to grab a hankie before you read. If you ever wondered whether empathy educates, sit back, peruse, and breathe. Photograph; Ali Barthwell Ali Barthwell | Originally Published at xoJane. August 14, 2014 at 12:30PM I don’t know how to tell people that I’d rather [...]
By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. |Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. August 14, 2014 It is the 1890s, and educators are concerned that students are not receiving the quality education they deserve—especially if those students plan to attend college. What became known as The Report of the [...]
When your father last visited, he took you past the front yard at your grandparents’ house and sat beside you on a square of sidewalk. I had supplied the chalk — $0.75 on sale in the checkout line at a supermarket — but stayed at [...]
By Paul Brandeis Raushenbush | Originally Published at Huffington Post. August 13, 2014 4:18 PM EDT Updated: August 14, 2014 9:59 AM EDT 'Can we switch for just one day?' my friend Sean jokingly asked me as we were working out at the gym. 'No, way' I [...]
Photograph; Michael Brown. Hershel Johnson, a friend of Brown’s since middle school remembers. “He said he wasn’t going to end up like some people on the streets. He was going to get an education. He was going to make his life a whole a lot better.” By [...]
Irene Robinson wraps her arm around her grandchild, who attended Anthony Overton Elementary School in Chicago [2013]. The school is one of 48 now shuttered because of a budget deficit. Many parents have voiced concerns about the closures. Photograph by Michael By Joseph Erbentraut | Originally Published [...]
