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Category Archives: Education
Dear Daddy: A Love Letter to Your Beloved South
July 15, 2020 Dear Daddy, Last night I dreamt of you for the first time since your death. I woke up with tears in my eyes. Although you have been dead for a little more than 38 years, in the … Continue reading
Posted in being a teenager, Education, Family, Fatherhood, Fathers, Growing Up, Lest We Forget
Tagged Benin & Togo, Cameroon, Civil War, Confederate memorials, Confederate monumnets, Confederate statues, Congo, discrimination, Ellis Island, Emmett Till, Four White Men Kidnap and Rape Black Girl in Tylertown MS, Ghana, NC, Nigeria, racial reckoning, Segregation, slave ships, Southern Bantu peoples, the South, Township of Bath, Virginia, white supremacy, WW I, WW II, Yeatesville
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This day in history — April 21, 2007 — Turner County High School in Ashburn, Georgia, Holds First Racially Integrated Prom
On April 21, 2007, Turner County High School students attended the school’s first racially integrated prom. Located in Ashburn, Georgia, a small, rural, peanut-farming town of 4400 residents, the school’s racial demographics reflected those of the local community: 55% black … Continue reading
Willie Lynch, On Language
I am a self-styled language cop, especially as it relates to criminal justice language, how it has been used not only to dehumanize and stigmatize people with criminal justice involvement, but also to control the narrative, how such people with … Continue reading
Posted in crime, Education, Justice Chronicles, Revolution, Slavery
Tagged criminal justice language, Denmark Vesey, Eddie Ellis, French Revolution, Gabriel Prosser, Haitian Revolution, hyper incarceration, Mass Incarceration, Nat Turner, Slavery, The WIllie Lynch Letter: The Making of a Slave, Willie Lynch, Willie Lynch Letter
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Words Matter: Another Look at the Question of Language, by Eddie Ellis, President, Center for NuLeadership on Urban Solutions
We need to be constantly reminded about this language: Words matter. They shape perceptions and understanding, both of past and present events and of future possibilities and, therefore, future events. Semantic and public acceptance of terms like “formerly incarcerated” or … Continue reading
The Miseducation of New York City’s Public School Children
Last Sunday (11/01/2015) I read an interesting opinion piece in the Daily News, “Worms in the Apple: A observer of the New York City schools sees a system infected, over three decades, with two stubborn problems,” (one, a “retrograde teachers’ … Continue reading
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Tagged "Worms in the Apple", Bank Street College of Education, Board of Education, Campaign for Knowledge, Carmen Farina, Christopher Columbus, City Journal, Columbia University's Teachers' College, Common Core State Standards, Daily News, Dead Poets Society, Diana Lam, E.D. Hirsch, Eurocentrism, Joel Klein, Lucy Calkins, Manhattan Institute, Mayor Bill de Blasio, Mike Bloomberg, National Assessment of Educational Progress, New York City Public School System, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, progressive-education, PS 87, Sol Stern, UFT, United Federation of Teachers
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Fabricated Racism?
Bill O’Reilly, well known Republican hack, in today’s (06-01-15) amNewYork column, “City Council sees racism at every turn,” writes about “fabricated racism.” O’Reilly is looking at the City Council’s proposed response to the fact that, according to a UCLA study, … Continue reading
Two Classic Speeches on Voting
With Election Day right around the corner, now is a good time to read or re-read two pieces, Frederick Douglass’ “The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro,” given on July 5, 1852, and Malcolm X’s “The Ballot or the … Continue reading
Posted in Black patriotism, Education, John F. Kennedy, Justice Chronicles, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Patriotism, Politics, Revolution
Tagged Frederick Douglass, JFK, Jr., Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, The Ballot of the Bullet, The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro, Voting, voting rights
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Frederick Douglass’ “The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro” (July 5, 1852)
Mr. President, Friends and Fellow Citizens: He who could address this audience without a quailing sensation, has stronger nerves than I have. I do not remember ever to have appeared as a speaker before any assembly more shrinkingly, nor with … Continue reading
Andrew the Ambitious
Nearly two months ago, when Andrew Cuomo, New York’s Governor, announced that he would use public money to finance higher education in prison, in some quarters people thought that the state was finally wising up and was going to be … Continue reading
