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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
As a Minority Student at Mizzou, The Racial Tensions There Didn’t Surprise Me
Kouichi Shirayanagi2016-11-29T17:39:09-05:00This week’s events at the University of Missouri don’t surprise me one bit. As a graduate student in Mizzou’s journalism school with a Japanese and Jewish background, I know what it’s like to be a minority. There, I am regularly reminded that I am different. Without [...]
My University Studies Haven’t Saved Me From Homelessness and Hunger
Pablo Montes2016-11-29T17:39:09-05:00Food and housing insecurity do not disappear from people’s lives when they go to college. There is this damaging misconception that once you get to college – once you’re on an upwardly mobile, higher-education track – you magically have the same resources and opportunities as everyone [...]
This Is the Perfect Illustration of Why Microaggressions Hurt
Alli Kirkham2016-11-29T17:39:10-05:00Panel 1 (Llelena, the main character in this comic, is a heavy, dark-skinned woman. She is standing in front of a mirror in her apartment that is placed above a table with a vase on it, smiling and pointing at her reflection.) Llelena: [...]