A Summer to Remember
As the school year ends and families look ahead to summer plans, I hope many will be able to consider travel that is not [...]
Read MoreStaying Vigilant on Brown
As a teenager, many of Barbara Johns’ wildest dreams were about a surprising subject: a new school. “My imagination would run rampant—and I would [...]
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Dangerous Steps Backwards on Discriminatory School Discipline
In January 2014, the U.S. Departments of Education and Justice jointly released a ‘guidance package’ on school discipline to help schools and districts meet [...]
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Remembering the Very Courageous Dovey Johnson Roundtree
When Dovey Johnson Roundtree passed away on May 21 at age 104 our nation lost another far too unknown extraordinary groundbreaking Black woman leader. During [...]
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Dr. James Cone
“The lynching tree interprets the cross. It keeps the cross out of the hands of those who are dominant. Nobody who is lynching anybody can [...]
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Only the Truth Will Set Us Free
We want to tell the truth, because we believe in truth and reconciliation but we know that truth and reconciliation are sequential. We can’t get [...]
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No Turning Back
A new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report released last month, “K-12 Education: Discipline Disparities for Black Students, Boys, and Students with Disabilities,” reminds us once [...]
Read MoreTheir Lives and Futures Remain on Hold
Daniela Gonzalez is a mother of two who lives in Jackson, Mississippi. She graduated from middle and high school in Jackson and is now enrolled [...]
Read MoreCharles Merrill: the Crucial Importance of Lanterns in Young Lives
I have been so blessed with an abundance of lanterns in my life who have been indispensable guides and supports over many decades. I shared [...]
Read MoreA Prayer to End Poverty in Our Time
In December 1967 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. preached what would be his last Christmas sermon at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. At the end [...]
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