“To label this kind of trauma as ‘post-traumatic stress disorder’ is perhaps a little dangerous, because there's nothing ‘post’ about it.”
Author photo: Kathy Richland. Cover image: Penguin Random House.
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On a trip to Alabama, reckoning with monuments, myths, and To Kill a Mockingbird.
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Harper Lee’s novel is the closest thing America has had to required reading. But the book’s failings in confronting racism are more apparent than ever to White educators — and Black ones wonder what took so long.
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“I was guilty as soon as I was accused,” says Tom Robinson to Atticus Finch.
Read MoreTeens Take Charge – Education Panel On What It’s Like To Be Left Behind - Bklyner→
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PROSPECT HEIGHTS – “We are here today because we are tired of this conversation being one-sided. It’s always been about what the adults think the students need. But where are the students when they’re having these conversations?” asked Sokhnadiarra Ndiaye, a student from Brooklyn College Academy High School. “We have a voice, too, you know! We’re not just good for taking orders. We are constantly being left behind and ignored.
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“Strap yourselves in and get ready,” said State Senator Michael Gianaris of Queens. “We are not giving up until we scuttle this deal: scrap it, throw it in the garbage, and start the conversation all over again.”
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Corey Johnson began yesterday’s hearing with an elegy…
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On October 22, small businesses in New York City may or may not get a lifeline they’ve been waiting on for 30 years.
Read MoreTeaching High School Cultural Studies in the Age of Trump - Radical Teacher→
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In the high school Cultural Studies Seminar I co- taught in 2016-2017, my students knew that when we didn’t know what a word meant, we looked it up. One day during the school year, a few weeks after President Trump’s inauguration, we came across the word “radicalize” in an article about DeRay Mckesson and other Black Lives Matter activists.
Image credit Christine Peralta
Read MoreHarper Lee, Segregationist? - Public Books→
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In Atticus Finch: The Biography, Joseph Crespino ignores many of the most controversial questions that swirl around his subject. And along the way, he takes a disconcertingly ambivalent tone in his exploration of mid-20th-century Southern conservatism.
Read MoreLin-Manuel Miranda Can't Save All Our Favorite Places - The Village Voice→
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As a beloved Washington Heights restaurant faces eviction, focus returns to the forever-stalled Small Business Jobs Survival Act
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Read MoreParks, Arts, and Eats of Hunts Point - The Village Voice→
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Diego León, the man behind ”Dandy in the Bronx,” shows us favorite spots in his neighborhood
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Read MoreSouth Bronx Saviors or Sellouts? - The Village Voice→
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As gentrification looms, can South Bronx entrepreneurs succeed in their community without selling out?
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Gloria Steinem and Yoko Ono Join Hundreds to Remember Kate Millett
Wrestling with Atticus Finch - Education Week→
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The challenging journey toward being an "anti-racist teacher"
Image credit to Melody Newcomb for Education Week
For my students - November 2016→
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A poem for my high school students after the 2016 presidential election.
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