Well How Black Am I Really?
Carnesia, Aurora, CO. As far back as I can remember I’ve always been told by past educators that I am very “well mannered” unlike the...
Identity Thief Blasian Sensation Lifelong Educator
Jennifer Wong Cernak, Chester, MD. I have been listening to your race-card stories for a long time and heard the topic of mixed race come...
Teaching hope in spite of racism.
Joyce Corley, Montrose, CO. As an educator, I witnessed the results of racism that targeted the most vulnerable people in our society.
Teach in Japan, but you’re black
Dee Moore, Shreveport, LA. Hajimemashite! That is the stigma I am always facing in my community. I am a 25 year old African American educator...
Ignorance breeds isolation, learning creates community
Reva Friedman, Overland Park, KS. We live in our comfy, constrained, psychic silos. My mission as a teacher educator is to create opportunities for my...
STILL SO MUCH WORK TO DO.
Rachel Potts Jersey City, NJ As an educator, I see every day the ongoing, engrained inequities when it comes to our youngest african american students,...
Number one bullied race in America
Hannah Lucky Tran Philadelphia, PA As an Asian American educator, I have personally experience and witnessed countless acts of bullying based on Asian identity and/or...
