i had the privilege to give an Ed Talk, a mini-lecture about the future of education. i imagined what it would be like if the prototypical achievement of language arts curriculum was a deep study of the rap verse. 🎤 i hope it sparks your imagination too!

RT @ElliottWilson:

RT @_timhernandez: Knocked another 136 doors today. We have 27 days until the election, and today I’m hearing on doors about how families a….

RT @ENIGGADESERVES: Change your diet, my nigga.

"freaky ass nigga" is the most relevant insult of the year. kendrick really does make you think.

RT @CornelWest: Don't let the mainstream media distort our righteous dissent as hatred. We stand firmly against occupation, energized by lo….

down with the democratic party. down with the republican party. down with the duopoly. they went from one king to two kings and called it democracy. just because the two kings take turns ruling us doesn't make them less authoritarian. THE NATION IS WAKING UP!!.

ideally, what percentage of teachers SHOULD be women or femme identified? do we think that men make inferior teachers? but men are over-represented in school leadership. do we think women make inferior leaders? am i allowed to ask these questions?.

the propaganda gotta have swag. we the people do not appreciate political movements that are not artful and joyful and expressive.

why do we deny our african origins?.

does western mean white?.

every day in schools white people lie to us when they tell us they invented math. this is the number one objective of the western miseducation, to make us think that math (and letters) are the consequence of "western" innovation.

RT @haymarketbooks: Gil Scott-Heron was born April 1, 1949 in Chicago.

RT @quasiWOKE: my heart aches as i salute the young ancestor, Neighborghood Nipsey. Nip i wish you safe travels as you transition to the G….

RT @msolurin: Please tell me something you’re happy about or grateful for today. I’d like to see some positivity.

if you are fluent at "social justice" but you are also a liar you are still "going to the lake of flames"🔥🔥🔥 (as my grandmother from another mother mrs. beasley used to say).

black families have a dime for every dollar of white wealth. and we have had this exact same rate throughout the "affirmative action" era. we don't need diversity. we need reparations.

black people produced harriet tubman, malcolm x and martin luther king jr, and the country now celebrates them as heroes, while still operating on a racial caste system.

is codeswitching okay if you're doing it to trick white folks and not because you think their codes are more legit?.

katt williams has earned every bit of the spotlight he has received in his recent viral moment. i remember seeing him in chicago at the united center in like 2015 with 1000 niggas from the nation of islam holding down his security detail.

if you conceive of a school from scratch, based on the principles of hip-hop what would that school look like?.