“Death Is Attached to Their Behavior”: Kim Burrell and Trans Women of Color
In a video clip that has spread widely across the internet, gospel singer and pastor Kim Burrell intones, “Everybody in
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Author: Lindsey E. Jones
Confronting School Choice, Part II: The 1980s in Review
The issue that occasions this post is the NAACP’s recent call for a moratorium on charter schools until the charter
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Confronting School Choice, Part I: The NAACP’s Charter Moratorium and the Backlash
On October 15, 2016, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) announced that its Board of Directors
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Why Black Teachers Matter
A recent Mother Jones article entitled “Black Teachers Matter” focused on the dwindling number of African American teachers, using the
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Black Girls, Domestic Violence, and the Limits of Self-Defense
The case of Bresha Meadows, an African American teenage girl in Ohio, is a sad commentary on the failure of
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