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What is J. Cole’s beef with “cancel culture”?

J. Cole — a self-proclaimed “conscious” rapper has an…

“The City That Was in a Forest: Atlanta’s Disappeared Trees and Black People” — Full Interview with Hugh Hunter

Transitions Are Dead To Me.

“Transition” just doesn’t hit like it used to. Which is to say, transitions are maybe even more dizzying than…

Cops shows that critique cops are still copaganda — a Brooklyn99 viewer

In the wake of the mass mobilizations against police violence in the summer and fall of 2020, many industries have attempted, in their own ways, to respond to social reckonings around policing. The…

Movement superstructures decide which formations access resources, replicating donor relationships

As sociopolitical awareness and mobilization has peaked and sustained over the last decade, the national movement landscape has responded. Local, statewide and…

Representation without solidarity is a skin-deep change (not anti-racism)

In response to recent social movements around race relations and legacies of oppression, organizations and institutions (including colleges and universities) have worked to devise plans for responsive…

Disability Justice is what will turn learning spaces for some into learning spaces for all

Many educators see the word “disability” and immediately think of the Americans with Disabilities Act, differentiation and accommodations, but teaching students with…

Circle of Courage and Classroom Climate in Higher Ed

When I was a secondary education teacher, before graduate school, I received extensive training on building a positive classroom climate. Intentionality around school climate, classroom climate, and restorative practices was growing in my…