• US Education Secretary Fires Back at Push to Dismiss Black Studies

    Miguel Cardona, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Education, wrote an opinion column in the Tampa Bay Times, calling to “enrich public schools, not ban books and topics”.
     
    Secretary Cardona laid out a number of ideas for how to proceed with the evolution of public education as how and what students are taught has been brought to the spotlight by some politicians taking a firm stance to criticize what’s being introduced in the classroom.
     
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  • Teaching myself to be unbothered: My Black Women’s History Month lesson 30 years in the making.

    Teaching myself to be unbothered: My Black Women’s History Month lesson 30 years in the making.
    First-person essay by Tahirah J. Walker
    My wish for Women’s History Month (and my birthday) this year was to be what many folks call “unbothered.” I discovered that I needed to think carefully about what exactly that means to me. 
    I thought of that scene in “Sorry to Bother You” when Danny Glover’s character is explaining how to capture the ‘white voice’ that brings in the sales for telemarketers. “Got your bills paid. You’re happy

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