The Life of Sally Hemings: An Exhibit at Monticello
Monticello was the home of Thomas Jefferson in Virginia. It is now a museum, which tells the story of Jefferson and the enslaved Sally Hemings....
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The New Yorker: The Biden Plan Includes a Genuine Anti-Poverty Program
Sheelah Kolhatkar, a staff writer for The New Yorker, describes the most remarkable part of the Biden COVID rescue plan: its income payments for children....
My View: Why Trump’s “1776 Commission” Is a Very Bad Idea
I was invited to write for The Hill, a D.C.-based website, about why I oppose the Trump administration’s executive order creating a “1776 Commission” to...
Chalkbeat: GreatSchools Revises Its Rating System But It’s Still Tied to Test Scores
Chalkbeat reports that the rating agency GreatSchools has revised the way it measures school quality. Critics have long complained that its reliance on test scores...
Trump: Schools Must Teach “Patriotic” U.S. History
Standing in front of the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution at the National Archives, Trump denounced the teaching of history in U.S. schools...
Today is the Anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Justice, Led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
I was there with my husband Richard. Dick was a close friend of Bayard Rustin, one of the day’s organizers. We took the train To...
University of Kentucky Joins with NAACP to Establish New Research Initiative
The University of Kentucky College of Education and the NAACP have agreed to establish a research center at the university to address issues of concern...
Black Students and Staff Speak Out About Charters
Black students/staff at charter schools fight back on Instagram. Lots ofamazing stuff here. @[email protected][email protected]@[email protected]@[email protected]@[email protected] Like this: Like Loading…...
Making Black Lives Matter in School
The following article appeared in the Grio and was co-authored by Dr. Andre Perry, Jitu Brown, Keron Blair, Richard Fowler, Stacy Davis Gates and Tiffany...