Tag: racial justice
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I’m Terrified to Go to the Career Counselor!
This is a post about emotional and affective accessibility on college campuses and their career centers. My growing concern is that students are going to college and taking all of these general education classes, switching majors all the time, and then dropping out before they get their degree. Then they have debt and are lacking…
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Book Review: From Lament to Advocacy: Black Religious Education and Public Ministry
Book Editors: Anne E. Streaty Wimberly, Nathaniel D. West, Annie Lockhart-Gilroy From Lament to Advocacy: Black Religious Education and Public Ministry tackles the problem of racism in contemporary US education, society, and religion. The book is unique: unlike a lot of the racial justice books I read, it didn’t talk about the complicity of the…
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Public Education is Failing Most in Seattle
The history of Seattle is one steeped in racism and, not surprisingly, public education is faring poorly in Seattle. This is for complex reasons, mostly associated with racism of white students and parents not wanting to be bussed to diverse schools from rich, white Queen Anne in the early 2000’s. I remembered when my husband…
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Teaching “Fire by Night,” by John Beecher
Fire by Night When the burnt black bodies of the homeless Were found in the embers of the Negro church Into which they had crept to sleep on the floor The wails of the people traveled down the cold wind And reached the ears of the rich on the mountain …
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