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 MoreAs the school year ends and families look ahead to summer plans, I hope many will be able to consider travel that is not [...]
Read MoreAs a teenager, many of Barbara Johns’ wildest dreams were about a surprising subject: a new school. “My imagination would run rampant—and I would [...]
Read MoreIn January 2014, the U.S. Departments of Education and Justice jointly released a ‘guidance package’ on school discipline to help schools and districts meet [...]
Read MoreWhen Dovey Johnson Roundtree passed away on May 21 at age 104 our nation lost another far too unknown extraordinary groundbreaking Black woman leader. During [...]
Read More“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 [...]
Read MoreWe 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 [...]
Read MoreA 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 MoreDaniela 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 MoreI 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 MoreIn 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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