In A State That Voted for Trump, The Teachers Rallied When ICE Raided A Rural Nebraska Town
Buzzfeed
“Teachers and administrators had been in a meeting Wednesday morning when panicked phone calls and text messages streamed in informing them that ICE was in their rural town of O’Neill, made up of around 3,700 people, arresting workers.”
What James Baldwin’s Activism Can Teach Schools About Social Justice
Education Post
“Educators have an obligation to mold students into active citizens who conceive of justice as liberation from all cultural, social, and political institutions that oppress anyone, anywhere.”
Langston Hughes Just Got a Year Older
The New York Times
“Kevin Young, the director of the Schomburg Center and a poet, suggested that the confusion over Hughes’s age resonates with broader themes of improvisation and tale-telling in African-American autobiography.”
On a Civil Rights Trail, Essential Sites and Indelible Detours
The New York Times
“Some of black America’s most important and compelling history is tucked away, often unceremoniously, in what some dismiss as ‘flyover country’ — in Central Plains states like Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri. ”
Beyond Representation: In Music and Media, Gender Equality Will Take A Revolution
NPR
“To change culture for the better, more representative and more equitable, those of us with the power to curate new canons and to publish in outlets like this one must both resist the tendency of capital to co-opt revolutionary impulses and be as critical of our own histories and perspectives as we are of others'.”
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