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.
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Read MoreDJ Cashmere is a John K. Martin Fellow at NYU's Carter Journalism Institute. He is a writer and audio producer whose interests include cultural studies, antiracism, education, and baseball. DJ was a classroom teacher in Chicago for eight years and has a Master's in Teaching. He also has a degree in Theatre Arts from the University of Southern California and studied at the Second City and the British American Drama Academy.
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