Charter Schools and the Black Independent School Movement
In October 2016, the NAACP issued a formal statement advocating a national cessation of charter school expansion pending increased oversight
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Teaching
The Activist Work of K-12 Educators: Then and Now
Black students’ educational needs are central to Black political and social activism. It is no secret that Black activism in
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Bringing Archives of Death and Life into the Classroom
This fall I am teaching African American History Since 1863, starting with the event of Emancipation as a legal-juridical happening
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White Fragility, Anti-Racist Pedagogy, and the Weight of History
by Justin Gomer and Christopher Petrella On July 3, The Boston Globe published a controversial, if predictable, op-ed entitled “In
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Neo-McCarthyism and the Radical Professor
It is never easy to be a critical intellectual in a bourgeois democracy—a society that professes egalitarian values while aggressively
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