City blocks in prime locations aren’t the only things gentrified. It is also happening in our classrooms and books, pushing out the past, erasing the lives and struggles of African Americans from our collective memory.
Category: Trayvon Martin
ColorLines magazine: MAP test boycott among “10 Racial Justice Wins for 2013”!
Video: 10 Racial Justice Wins For 2013 ColorLines magazine just released their list of “10 Racial Justice Wins for 2013”—and it is impressive. In a year when George Zimmerman was permitted to legally lynch Trayvon Martin, it can be all too easy to overlook the hard work of racial justice activists around the nation who …
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What I couldn’t say to my son about Trayvon
Demonstrations were held in hundreds of cities across the country yesterday to demand justice for Trayvon Martin and the prosecution of his murderer, George Zimmerman. I spoke at the rally in Seattle yesterday about Trayvon, the school-to-prison-pipeline, and how when my son asked me what had happened to Trayvon, I couldn't find the words to …
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Teach Trayvon: What’s not in the Common Core & how to close the education gap
Want to close the so-called "achievement gap"? This gap--better described as the opportunity gap--would quickly narrow if standards were added about analyzing the continuity of the American judicial system in excluding Black jurors and acquitting people who murder African Americans--from Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin and beyond. When you teach students about the major issues …
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