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- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We spend so much time listening to the things people are saying that we rarely pay attention to the things they don't.
- Nov 07, 2020
Silence is the residue of fear.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents raised me and my siblings in an armor of advice, an ocean of alarm bells so someone wouldn't steal the breath from our lungs, so that they wouldn't make a memory of this skin.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we say that black lives matter, it's not because others don't: it's simply because we must affirm that we are worthy of existing without fear, when so many things tell us we are not.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to live in a world where my son will not be presumed guilty the moment he is born, where a toy in his hand isn't mistaken for anything other than a toy.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been writing poetry seriously since about 2008, 2009.
- Just Because
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- Nov 07, 2020
Oppression doesn't disappear just because you decided not to teach us that chapter.
- Dragging
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you sing that this country was founded on freedom, don't forget the duet of shackles dragging against the ground my entire life.
- Founding Fathers
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- Nov 07, 2020
The presidents and the founding fathers and all of the people we sort of raise up as false idols, we don't wrestle with the fact that many of these were brilliant men, but they were also men with deep prejudices against people of color, against indigenous people, against women.
- Some
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you only hear one side of the story, at some point, you have to question who the writer is.
- Contributing
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the most significant factors contributing to the chasm of educational opportunity is the way that schools are funded.
- Choices
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- Nov 07, 2020
In many ways, the very notion of school choice operates under a false pretense - an assumption that every child has the same set of choices to make and the same places to choose from.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Until lawmakers can disentangle property taxes from public education, inequalities - perpetuated by the Supreme Court and Congress - will persist.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Schools shouldn't have to choose between serving a student with special needs or cutting an art class, laying off teachers or using outdated textbooks. But these are the positions that far too many schools have been placed in, and only a meaningful acknowledgment of the problem can begin the process of getting them out.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The power of literature does not lie in resonance with the particular but the way that the particular speaks to a broader, more universal truth.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Education is a human right - a recognition of dignity that each person should be afforded.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do those serving life sentences deserve access to educational opportunities never having a future beyond bars? The answer is yes and necessitates that in-prison education serves additional goals beyond reducing recidivism.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
History has proven that art depicting black people cannot be disentangled from the political implications that such art has on their lives. As Africans were being stripped from the continent and sailed across the Atlantic to the Western world, depictions of black people in Western art changed in order to further render them racialized caricatures.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Photography, sculpture, and painting were wielded as cultural weapons over the course of generations to substantiate the idea that black people were inherently subordinate beings; they were used to make slavery acceptable and to make black subjugation more palatable.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
With 'Black Panther,' black artists were provided with the opportunity and agency to create art that captures the full range of their imaginative possibilities. It matters that Chadwick Boseman is the protagonist and is supported by a cast of nearly all black characters.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
Black artists deserve the opportunity to create work without the burden of alleviating the social ills plaguing many black communities.
- High School And College
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- Nov 07, 2020
As we walked through the National Museum of African American History and Culture, I pushed my grandfather in a wheelchair he had reluctantly agreed to sit in. He is a proud man who also knows that his knees aren't what they once were - that years of high school and college football had long accelerated the deterioration of his aging joints.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
The history of racial violence in our country is both omnipresent and unspoken. It is a smog that surrounds us that few will admit is there.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
America's economy cannot be disentangled from the free labor that built it, just as America's culture cannot be unbound from the black artists who cultivated it.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
So often, our sporting allegiances are shaped by family tradition, passed down like heirlooms.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
My childhood closet was ornamented with U.S. jerseys of World Cups spanning the nineties and two-thousands - some of my favorite memories are from summers when, with a ball under my foot and a jersey on my back, I watched the U.S. team go up against the world's best players in the largest sporting event on Earth.
- Better Way
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is simply no better way to generate buzz for soccer in your country than having your team in the World Cup.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the U.S. team went on its historic run to the World Cup quarter-finals in 2002, I was thirteen years old. Each game in that run - the astonishing victory against Portugal, the resilient win over Mexico, even the gutsy but unlucky effort against the Germans - propelled me to push my other athletic interests aside and focus only on soccer.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
The beauty of the World Cup is that while thirty-two countries get to cheer for their respective teams, the event also affirms a global pluralism - it is as much a festival of cultural multiplicity as it is a competition featuring some of the best athletes in the world.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
'A Talk to Teachers' is emblematic of Baldwin's proclivity for candor over political appeasement and, like much of his work, focusses on history and the American consciousness.
- Daily
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- Nov 07, 2020
Young people are constantly absorbing - through media, textbooks, and policy - the myths of American exceptionalism; for black children, this means that what they are taught in class does not match the world that they navigate daily.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
'A Talk to Teachers' showed me that a teacher's work should reject the false pretense of being apolitical and, instead, confront the problems that shape our students' lives.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes sports serves as a reprieve from politics, and sometimes it serves as an extension of it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a solidarity that black people can find in celebrating the athletic success of our own, especially in sports where our existence is sparse.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
After high school, I earned a scholarship to play Division I soccer at a small school in North Carolina, but I didn't get much playing time, which forced me to determine who I was beyond the field, something I had previously never had to do.
- Considerable
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- Nov 07, 2020
While the most disadvantaged students - most often poor students of color - receive the most considerable academic benefits from attending diverse schools, research demonstrates that young people in general, regardless of their background, experience profound benefits from attending integrated schools.
- Greater
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- Nov 07, 2020
School desegregation is associated with higher graduation rates, greater employability, higher earnings, and decreased rates of incarceration.
- Enforcing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Schools are the single largest lever of mobility in this country. When we commit to creating and enforcing laws that acknowledge the injustice of the past, we open up the possibility of using schools as a means of reducing inequality.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The social science on the impact of desegregation is clear. Researchers have consistently found that students in integrated schools - irrespective of ethnicity, race, or social class - are more likely to make academic gains in mathematics, reading, and often science than they are in segregated ones.
- Color
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- Nov 07, 2020
The U.S. prison system, over all, disproportionately affects black and brown people, but people of color are overrepresented to a greater degree in private prisons.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
Older prisoners are more expensive for prisons to house because they tend to require more health care over time.
- Impact
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the power of private prisons is diminished, so, too, is their ability to engage in back-door political lobbying that has an impact on public and private prisons alike.
- Attention
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- Nov 07, 2020