“Coming back here is not easy. The racism…when I played here… The difficulty of going through different places where we traveled,” the Hall of Fame baseball player continued. “People said to me… ‘You think you’re a better person, you think you won when you played here and conquered?’ I said, you know, I would never…
Category: Commentary
How The Murder of Emmett Till Led To The Creation Of The Twilight Zone
The Twilight Zone was created by Rod Serling, who believed in using television as a platform for social activism and commentary.The show was initially inspired by the murder of Emmett Till, a Black teenager who was brutally killed in Mississippi in the 1950s.Serling’s attempts to directly adapt Till’s story were met with censorship, leading him…
Workplace Bullying: Weaponizing Belonging at Work
Belonging is an evolutionary longing in which connection equals protection, both for our bodies and souls (Sapolsky, 2004). Authentic connection is generative, encouraging us to grow while staying in alignment with our core values (hooks, 1996). True belonging encourages both interdependence, inviting us to lean on and support others, and independence, insisting we maintain personal…
The language we speak influences and shapes our perception of the world
The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, also known as linguistic relativity, suggests that the language we speak influences and shapes our perception of the world. It posits that different languages can lead speakers to think differently about the same reality. A question was recently raised: How does the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis work when it comes to Third-Culture Kids? Third-Culture…
The first Black ‘Peanuts’ character finally gets his origin story in animated special
“A Franklin special is really overdue,” said Craig Schulz, the co-writer of the show and son of Peanuts creator Charles Schulz, in an interview with Morning Edition. Charles Schulz first drew Franklin in 1968 after receiving a letter from a white Los Angeles schoolteacher named Harriet Glickman. She reached out to Schulz following the assassination…
Teachers of Color Face Unique Challenges. Here Are Some of Them (Opinion)
These invisible and often unpaid tasks took various forms. For instance: Black male educators taking on roles as disciplinariansLatinx educators acting as language translatorsCreating and curating culturally responsive, anti-racist and socially just curricular materialsServing on equity committees and taking leadership positionsMentoring racially marginalized studentsBridging the cultural gap as culture translators and mediatorsIn addition to the…
Shaping Tomorrow: The HBCU Legacy and American Democracy
New #VaryingViewpoints episode! 🎙️ 🗣️ Learn about the transformative potential of #highereducation exemplified by the #HBCU tradition! 👏 🎓 In this episode of the Varying Viewpoints podcast series, we invited John Silvanus Wilson Jr., author of Hope and Healing: Black Colleges and the Future of American Democracy and Visiting Lecturer at Morgan State University. John shares his background…
Incarcerated students graduate from top ten university for first time in history
ABC News’ Alex Perez speaks to recent graduates from the Northwestern University Prison Education Program about how the program has impacted their lives. WATCH:
Texas A&M just showed us that schools have the money to pay student-athletes
You can’t keep saying there isn’t enough to compensate players when there’s always enough to buy out bad, fired coaches Fisher’s failure on the sidelines looks even worse when you compare him to the man he replaced, Kevin Sumlin — Texas A&M’s first Black head football coach. Sumlin was 51-26 during his tenure with the…
“Silence represents a theory of the Black man’s reality”
This beautifully written book argues that educators need to understand the social worlds and complex literacy practices of African American males in order to pay the increasing educational debt we owe all youth and break the school-to-prison pipeline. Moving portraits from the lives of six friends bring to life the structural characteristics and qualities of…
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