Throughout my career as a Black male teacher, I’ve taught in district and charter schools. While many remain determined to highlight their differences, they’re one and...
God on Wall Street Last week, the nation heard Sen. Mitch McConnell suggest that the election of Barack Obama has satisfied America’s appetite for reparations. To...
Your first place all your own needs to be ah-mazing. Big-screen TV for gaming. Fridge for snacks and drinks. Sofa for kicking back, a few good...
Donald Trump’s flailing on immigration and the Mexican border continue to spiral into chaos. First, he threatened to close the border with Mexico. One week later,...
Ebony Iman Dallas is the featured artist at Joyce Gordon Gallery’s June 2019 Year of the Woman. Dallas’ work, “Through Abahay’s Eyes” (Through My Father’s Eyes),...
God on Wall Street As each day goes by, it seems like the discussion about reparations for African Americans is as isolated today, as it was...
MLK: “America has defaulted on its promissory note to citizens of color” Thomas Jefferson: “God is just and his justice shall not sleep forever.” On the...
God on Wall Street On November 20, 1866, General Oliver Otis Howard, along with 10 other people, played a key role in the founding of Howard...
The Henry J. Kaiser (HJK) Convention Center redevelopment proposal is being fast-tracked by the city despite significant community concerns—including lack of affordability, an operational model developed...
Last week, the House passed the historic Dream and Promise Act to provide a pathway to citizenship for millions of Dreamers and other immigrants. These young...
The heroes in comic books arrive in fancy costumes. Their heads are ringed by bubbles that say things like “POW!” and “ZOOM!” and that’s when bad...
The reaction — shock, joy, disbelief, euphoria — revealed the importance of Robert F. Smith’s stunning gift, when he announced, unexpectedly, that he would pay off...
Mike Siegel is coming to town on June 15 for an event to build support for his congressional campaign in the Texas 10th Congressional District. The...
The setting is a quaint old church in San Francisco about to close if attendance doesn’t increase. As Mother Superior struggles with these impending woes, in...
God on Wall Street Someone once said, “a crisis is a terrible thing to waste.” And if reparations is a crisis in America, it would be...
You were their hope for the future. For your elders, your birth represented things they wished would happen but that they’d never know. It was a...
Alabama — led by utterly clueless male legislators — just passed the most restrictive ban on abortion in the country, with Georgia and Missouri piling on....
There are some stories that no matter how they’re cast or recast, what’s wrong stays wrong until certain directors give the work a nuanced tweak that...
God on Wall Street In 2017, Drew Gilpin Faust, then President of Harvard University, drew national acclaim when she presented to the academic world a conference...
The Board of Education’s Community of Schools Policy calls on us to reimagine our school system to ensure a quality school for all Oakland students. We...
Part 1 This Juneteenth is a poignant one for African Americans. Next month, as it has for the last 12 years, Omnira Institute will present its...
God on Wall Street In an overwhelming move towards racial justice, the undergraduate student body at Georgetown University voted to pay reparations to the descendants of...
You wanted it. And you wanted it very much. But, ah, well, you didn’t get it. You worked and you begged and maybe you even saved...
This week marks the 65th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, the unanimous Supreme Court decision that outlawed apartheid in America, declaring segregated schools “inherently...
The Oakland Unified School District Board of Directors must make some difficult and hard choices that involves the District’s finances, personnel and governance. The District is...
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