Unsafe school environments from coast to coast underscore the severity of the 38 school-based episodes of hate and bias we tracked during the month of April.
As part of our series highlighting educator voices, we spoke to five Black teachers who teach in predominately Black or all-Black settings to ask how they approach the topic of slavery.
Danny Cross is a freelance writer and editor with 10 years' experience at Cincinnati's alternative newsweekly, CityBeat, where he was most recently editor in chief. Danny holds a bachelor's degree in English literature from the University of Cincinnati and a master's in journalism from the University of Oregon. He is slated to teach his first journalism class as an adjunct instructor at the University of Cincinnati this fall.
TT Grants coordinator Jey Ehrenhalt talked with elementary educator Kristie Burnett, who models mindfulness and brings meditative practices to the students in her third-grade classroom in upstate New York.