Recently, over on Twitter, I asked a question about the new vocabulary people are learning in order to see what parts of my own lexicon has changed. While I limited it to new words in the last 5 and 10 years I hadn’t expected the responses. …

A Certain Looking White Woman Every week, I stand before a roomful of strangers in antiracism workshops. There’s a lot one must be prepared for when doing this kind of work: who will be there? what’s the racial makeup of the room? …

Not only did I spend the first 10 years as a classroom teacher during my education career but I was department chair for a while, too. …

In my first few years of teaching I learned, the hard way, about making mistakes with classroom assignments I was creating. We had our standard textbooks with ancillary materials that we could use but I also learned that the objectives of a lesson didn’t always match up to what those…

In May of this last school year, I had a last straw moment. As a guidance dean and a part of an administrative team, this was truly nothing new, but this one was simply heartbreaking on a global scale as an example of what happens to Black children in schools. …

I have a sneaking suspicion that politicians and everyday citizens in this country have very little idea of what happens daily inside the walls of a school. That suspicion has been confirmed over the 23 years I spent as both a classroom teacher and then, later, as an administrator. …

Kelly Wickham Hurst has been awarded co-hort status for the Advancing the Development of Minority Entrepreneurship in Illinois. In seeking to promote economic growth in Illinois, the ADME awarded 35 applicants entrance into an investment program developed to strengthen start-up and small businesses from underrepresented communities. ADME has identified high-potential…

Nothing that’s happened in the last week has deterred us from the original mission and vision of Being Black at School. Black students are still marginalized, suspended more often than their white counterparts, and are denied access to higher level courses. …

Yesterday I went with a friend to do a little self-care and get a manicure and, inevitably, the conversation with the nail technicians turned to politics. It’s not all that interesting that I went and got my nails done, but that every single person in the salon knew about the…