A History of No Child Left Behind and the HISD Takeover
Where white and middle-class children are able to rely on cultural indicators to pass exams, minority and low-income students are subject to drills on the particular form of the test, multiple-choice questions, and specific writing skills that not only trade off with substantive learning, but actively "de-skills" students' existing higher-order problem-solving and thinking.
Our resistance, our radicalism, our resilience, and our revolutionary thought reflect the long tradition of Southerners who have struggled against slavery, Jim Crow apartheid, structural anti-blackness, and capitalist exploitation.
Through the end of the year, we'll RISE—percolating, reflecting, deepening reflections Rooted In Southern Experience.
Southern politics
Out of Bounds: The NAACP's SEC football boycott misunderstands the assignment
As long as the United States empowers a judicial and legislative apparatus that views Black political equity as an existential threat to its fabric, democracy will remain a dangerous game.
Arts & Soul
Why I started a record label (and other people should, too)
While DIY music culture has typically been credited as being pioneered by the white- and male-dominated punk and later hardcore scenes of the 1970s and 1980s, independent (or DIY) labels have been historic markers in the fight for creative and financial independence for artists of all genres—particularly Black artists—since as early as the 1920s.
Race & Place
Southesque: On Oklahoma's Disputed Southern Status
There are a multitude of Southerness markers that Oklahoma easily meets, which leaves its status as irrefutable, for better at times and for worse other times.
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Essays & Letters
Surviving Fascism: Lessons from Jim Crow
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