Learning the Vernacular: Slang in the Classroom
My sixth grade teacher was the only Black male educator in our entire school system when I had him as an eleven year old. In my racially and economically diverse […]
Category Archives: Economic Justice
Who’s Afraid of Social Responsibility?: Post-Blackness and Community Action
When I was in eighth grade I took a placement test and was switched into an advanced math class. The move meant that I changed out of the regular track, […]
Choosing Our Battles: Standing By the Communities We Seek to Challenge
I was staying over this past week at my grandmother’s house in my father’s hometown. One morning I was helping make breakfast in the kitchen with my aunt, while some […]
Disaster Capitalism, Education Reform and the Charter School Movement
Naomi Klein, scholar-activist and the author of No Logo, noticed a recent trend in the growth of free market reforms and corporate force. Though some of these initiatives had been […]
Colonization and Occupation: Rethinking the Role of Global Capitalism
The various Occupy movements which have garnered widespread support and mainstream media attention over the past year have been exciting and heartening to watch and participate in. They have also […]
Making Our Own Movements: Queer Activism in the Gay Marriage Era
Recently reemerging debates in mainstream media about gay marriage have had me thinking about the state of my own identity in our current political moment. As a queer person of […]
Originality for Sale: How Capitalism Erases the Individual in the Name of the Individual
I was watching a sneaker ad on TV the other day, one reminiscent of most ads geared towards young demographics. It featured a montage of different twenty-somethings doing different activities–deejaying, […]
Faltering Allegiances: Or; Why Are So Many Elite Schools in the Hood?
I interviewed at a graduate program for urban education this past week. The program is housed in an elite private university, which I was encouraged to apply to because of […]
Doing It Ourselves: Reclaiming Community Service
One of my best friends lives in a small, post industrial mill town in Western Massachusetts. The city is mostly Black and Latin@, with high unemployment and one of the […]
Mother Shaming: Poverty, Feminism and Young Pregnancy
I was in eighth grade the first time a close friend of mine got pregnant, and many more of my good friends would become parents before I graduated high school. […]
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