There is a great tradition in Chicago of Saturday schools–classes, programs and workshops led by community organizations and members on Saturday mornings and afternoons. Most prominent and ongoing in immigrant […]
“The classroom shares a genealogy with the technology of the prison.” – Dylan Rodriguez The Chicago Teachers’ Strike represented both a galvanizing and fracturing shift in the U.S. political discourse, […]
Though it is possible that the Teachers’ Strike in Chicago may be finished today, with the students of Chicago’s public schools back in class by Wednesday, many of the original […]
The Teachers’ Strike in Chicago has been on since Monday, with some talk today amongst union representatives and mainstream media that there may be a contract agreement reached as soon […]
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 […]
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, […]
In the United States, November’s presidential election is slowly approaching, and I have been asking myself whether I am going to vote in it or not. For the most part […]
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 […]
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 […]
Recently, one of the precious few queer clubs in my area of the state closed, unable to continue paying the rent for their space. This came two years after a […]
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