For some young Blacks of this age, it’s hard to look at the past and connect with it. Most kids spend Black History Month thinking about our enslaved ancestors, remembering (if we’re old enough)...
I recently had the honor of speaking to a group of young adults at the Chicago Urban League, invited by a former student. I walked in with a mission: to tell them the truth that too many adults are...
News flash: We have been celebrating Black History Month all wrong. Black History Month (originally "Negro History Week") was started by Carter G. Woodson in 1915. He had a very simple theory to...
Recently I had the privilege of meeting with a group of phenomenal educators, and we played a simple game: sharing the stories behind our names. What should have been a moment of reflection and pride...
Charter schools segregate Black and other minority students and worsen economic and racial isolation. That “fact” was given to me by the artificial “intelligence” of ChatGPT. A few days ago, I asked...
