In our defending public education era.

“The classroom remains the most radical space of possibility.” - bell hooks Rest well.

Panel Discussion with @FPSFarmingtonCT @JuliaDarcy820 @sarhannaksmith and Dr Lyman discussing Green Light Culture and Student Centered Learning.

Here’s more from our @CAS_ct Student Equity Advisory Board—please watch! #EquitySummit

“This idea of Multicultural education isn’t dead. It’s more vital now…We have tremendous power in this moment as educators, to think as culturally responsive teachers” -@YohuruWilliams Thank you Dr. Williams for your inspiration & commitment to equity! @CAS_ct #EquitySummit

Thank you ⁦@SecCardona⁩ for your words of inspiration to open today’s ⁦@CAS_ct⁩ #EquitySummit! ⁦@usedgov⁩ ⁦@EducateCT⁩ ⁦@ctserc⁩

This is the bossest of all boss moves. Salute to my sister @nhannahjones

Representative juries matter. States and jurisdictions can help by paying a more fair jury service wage. And we can all remember this moment the next time we get a jury summons. If you are able to serve, please serve. Representative juries matter.

While our eyes are focused on the #ChauvinTrial, new deaths race to fill up our vision + break our hearts. Unarmed children are not men. Their deaths are never justifiable. And a traffic stop should not be fatal. God grant us mercy until the law gives us justice.

Footage of the Siler City community in North Carolina between 1937-1939. Originally silent, this footage is part of the H. Lee Waters film collection held at Duke University.

Who Got Next? Historic first Black mayor, first woman mayor of Boston--Mayor @Kim_Janey! #CrossConnection

Grateful to all of the Asian American scholars, writers, and activists, esp. Asian American women, who have been writing and speaking out in the media this week. Here's a thread of some of the best articles I've seen; feel free to add others I've missed.

Zora Neale Hurston — "If you are silent about your pain, they'll kill you and say you enjoyed it." Brava Meghan!!! #OprahMeghanHarry

No one should be okay with anyone living in poverty.

.@angela_rye on all people of color working as allies towards racial equality. #CrossConnection

The men who led armed insurrections against the Reconstruction governments in the South and terrorist attacks against black voters went on to become governors, senators, and congressmen.

I want Trump to be removed so that every 5th grader who asks “why was Mike Pence President for 2 days” hears a story about why white supremacy & fascism are threats to democracy. Millions of students in the next decades will ask this question and will know to reject fascism.

Stacey Abrams (that’s the tweet).

Give Stacey Abrams, Fair Fight, the New Georgia Project, and every single organizer that has made this possible all of the credit. All of it. What they have done in Georgia is remarkable.

They now describe her as “intimidating”. In life and now in death, no country for Black women. https://t.co/iee9MTIyNV