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This is The Reality of Anorexia
Alice Doeblin2016-12-13T11:33:39-05:00Since opening up about my struggles, I have received more support and strength and prayers than I could have ever imagined, and I am incredibly thankful. I am blessed to have such a strong support system in my life. However, not everyone is as accepting [...]
The People’s Rally, March, and Conference—Save Our Schools Coalition July 8-9, 2016
empathy2016-11-29T17:39:06-05:00Reverend Doctor William Barber II is the President of the North Carolina NAACP and convener of the Historic Thousands on Jones Street (HKonJ) Peoples Assembly Coalition, We are gathered here today as we the people are unified in a common cause drawn by [...]
Of Love and Blood: For People Who Like To Watch Child Abuse Porn on Social Media
Stacey Patton2016-11-29T17:39:06-05:00That’s the question a lot of folks have been asking about the latest viral video of a sweaty hulking father who punished his son for walking out of class by lacing up a pair of boxing gloves and repeatedly punching him in the chest and [...]
The People’s March For Public Education and Social Justice
empathy2016-11-29T17:39:06-05:00Save Our Schools Coalition March and Rally and Activists Conference The People’s March For Public Education and Social JusticeThe March and Rally Take Place at The Lincoln Memorial[/tile] Friday, July 8, 2016 10:30 a.m. – Pre-Rally festivities on the big stage and in [...]
Why John King Should Be Rejected as Secretary of Education
empathy2016-11-29T17:39:06-05:00When I learned that President Obama had formally nominated John King for the position of secretary of education, I was horrified and furious. As a student at Syosset High School during much of King’s reign as New York State’s education commissioner, I saw firsthand the [...]
I’ll Be So Proud When My Daughter is President and Runs a Corrupt Oligarchy
Kiese Laymon2016-11-29T17:39:07-05:00I want my black American daughter to be president of the United States when she grows up – and to evade, at all costs, the question of whether a president of the United States of America can be morally just. I want her to wear [...]
The History of Public Education in New Orleans Still Matters
Al Kennedy2016-12-05T05:39:22-05:00Photographic Credit; Students at a New Orleans charter school in 2011. By Ted JacksonTimes Picayune. If we cannot see white supremacy in the past, how will we recognize it in 2016? One could reasonably conclude that, prior to 2005, public education in New Orleans [...]
#EndWarOnYouth 2015 Statement
Jonathan Stith2016-11-29T17:39:07-05:00Today, on the eve of the one year anniversary of our national movement to #EndWarOnYouth, AEJ Youth Justice Corps members from the Baltimore Algebra Project, VAYLANew Orleans and the Youth Organizing Institute travel to Columbia, SC to wage love. They, along with a coalition of [...]