I’ve been attending the Black Male Educator Conference (BMEC) since the very beginning—back in 2015, when 100 Black men teaching in Philadelphia gathered in a room for a radical revival to lift each...
We live in an age when truth no longer anchors public life. The cost is not merely confusion but captivity, the quiet surrender of our capacity to know. Language is the first casualty. What once...
The future that the Trump administration envisions for public schools is more patriotic, more Christian, and less “woke.” Want to know how that might play out? Look to Oklahoma. Oklahoma has spent...
In the quiet of a classroom, courage can take many forms. Sometimes it looks like a teacher sliding a worn clipping from the Chicago Defender across a desk, telling students about an activist or...
I needed someone to believe in what I could become, but those voices were silent. At least, that's how I remember my twenties—adrift in that gap decade between teenage dreams and adult clarity. That...
