It’s hard to begin this list in light of the events that have transpired over the past week. First, we have a major fashion retailer …
H&M and Education Equity
I first caught wind of the handsome black boy outfitted in a hoodie with the words, “coolest monkey in the jungle” on Monday morning as I …
Teaching and Learning While Black
Recently, I wrote a piece for ETFO Voice Magazine that was featured. It was featured because they, like me, thought it was an important message. It is …
When smart people say there’s no institutional racism
I started on YouTube watching some Lord Jamar interview and somehow, thirty minutes later, was watching a Piers Morgan Live episode where he was debating …
Check Your Privilege
I was teaching a short and easy lesson on science lab safety that naturally led into a small activity I wanted my students to complete …
Obligatory Obedience
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 …