I once witnessed a teacher moving a desk to the corner of her classroom as she was setting up the day before the new school …
Dropout v. Push-out
This could have also been titled, “Our Words Matter”, “The Details” or “Speak it into (Non)Existence”…or something rich like that… The statistics have …
So I Did a TEDx Talk…
(This is part 2 of my behind the scenes look at doing a TEDx Talk) So we got to the Centre in the Square …
#BTS of Doing a TED Talk
That stands for behind the scenes. And it was a TEDx for the particularly particular. Nevertheless, … Back in the springtime, a real-life …
Big Brother
When Kanye West dropped Big Brother I was inspired. I thought, “Shit, he’s right, you know. We need to appreciate the inspiring and influential contemporaries before they …
Fear Versus Love
In “A Bronx Tale”, the undisputed mob boss of the town, Sonny, takes his quasi-son, Lorenzo under his wing and in one scene speaks to …
Three Chains On
I usually come to work with three chains on, tucked in of course, a 60 gram Cuban link bracelet that I actually owned for years …
The Fresh Prince Syndrome: Track 2, “I Got A Story To Tell”
Hegemonic schooling practices are set up in a way that is meant to deceive and ultimately fail Black males in the long run, no pun intended. …
The Fresh Prince Syndrome: Track 1
I came of age in the ’90s. A time when instead of explicit forms of racism, Black males, like myself, developed alongside illustrations painted by …
New School Year’s Eve
It is the weekend before a new school year starts, and until I wrote that I honestly did not realize the gravity of this. I …