Founder of the @IdaBWellsEdProj. Teacher & Organizer. To be a teacher in this country and be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
Los Angeles, CA
Joined March 2010
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Got my first meeting w/a parent who is concerned about "CRT" today! Wish me luck! I will have to explain to this adult why I am teaching a unit on Jim Crow Segregation & Civil Rights, in a US History class. During Black History Month🙃. Biggest concern: controlling my face &tone.
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Rise In Power Veteran Black Panther Party and Young Lords Party member, Mama Cleo Silvers. While a member of the Black Panthers, she was instrumental in establishing community health programs and was a key figure in the takeover of Lincoln Hospital in the South Bronx.
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🚨BREAKING🚨
Leonard Peltier Granted Executive Clemency
After 50 years of unjust incarceration and the tireless efforts of intergenerational grassroots organizing and advocacy, our elder and relative Leonard Peltier has been granted executive clemency.
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Learn about the reconstruction era and you will understand this country. Don’t and you won’t. It’s that simple. Until you see that white backlash is a feature and not a bug you won’t get it
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Since it is Paulo Freire's birthday, I want to remind everyone what he taught us: there’s no such thing as a politically neutral education, a politically neutral curriculum, or a politically neutral pedagogy.
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Free Lunch is, btw , one of like three education policies that has actual evidence that it boosts educational achievement in any reliable or scalable way. If we were serious about that we would have it nationwide rather than endless “reform” fads.
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Malcolm X: "I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight."
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The 7th Teaching Black History Conference is a month away. Registration ends July 12th. Learn about the most innovative approaches to Black history education! The website has all the information you need! See you soon! ed.buffalo.edu/black-history…
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Repeated burnings of Pride flags in Redlands and an attempted arson at the school district- important thread documenting ongoing anti-LGBTQ+ actions and threats.
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This is my Roman Empire. History as a subject is so identified with European history because Europeans destroyed everyone else's records.
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This Pride month, 1 year after attacks on LGBTQ+ folks, issues, & public schools intensified in our area, we’re focused on what we’ve built, how far we’ve come, and staying focused on action. Please share this thread of updates and action items 1/
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The Pulitzer Board gives a shoutout to student journalists.
A Statement From the Pulitzer Prize Board: pulitzer.org/news/statement-…
They are absolutely depending on Americans not knowing their history. Rewriting & banning radical history is an important part of maintaining empire. There is nothing more terrifying to the ruling class than young people who know their own power and act on it.
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Rewriting the narrative in front of us. Cops destroyed property. Cops broke down doors and windows. Cops are shooting people in the face with rubber bullets. Trespassing and not going to class are by definition not violent. Fuck this loser and all his loser friends!!!
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Rubber bullets? Have you lost your mind @UCLA? You are using rubber bullets against unarmed protestors who are *students* of your uni demanding you divest from genocide. You are attacking them to facilitate a quieter genocide. Fantastically gross legacy.
#Gaza #StudentIntifada
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This. This. This.
The whole “it’s outside agitators who have co-opted the students so we must go in because who knows what we’ll find” president and police narrative was nonsense from the start.
You know what they found when they “went in”???
STUDENTS!
Surprise.
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