Dear white family and friends, fellow white people I don’t know, white-identified people, and non-Black people in general, receive this in the spirit with which it is offered. I want to help you navigate the moment we are in. Let’s accept and acknowledge that the fires we see burning now should be emblems of our […]
Read more "Dear white people: Let’s not continue to be our ancestors"At the end of last year, I gave birth to my first baby. V is smart, happy, + beautiful. The future for V is beaming with possibilities + will most definitely be filled with the love of parents, grandparents, family, + friends. In addition to all of this, racism has a hold on my newborn […]
Read more "Racism’s hold on my newborn child"[The author of this article is a third year NYU Gallatin student, Alex Boone, who interns for the NYU Metro Center’s Center for Strategic Solutions. Her individualized studies concentrate on the traumatic pathology of whiteness in educational institutions, and the effect it has on youth identity development. She writes to her audience from the perspective […]
Read more "Critically Conscious Educators Rising Meets Imperialist Nostalgia"Decolonizing Education. It brought you here today. It prompted you to wake up early on a Saturday when you have other commitments and obligations. It will prompt you to engage with other educators today on why and how we must shift the way we teach, think, and act with even our youngest babies. Decolonizing Education […]
Read more "My commitment to #DecolonizeEd: Conference remarks by NYU CSS Director, Natalie McCabe Zwerger"On June 30th, 2017, Natalie Zwerger, the Director of the NYU Center for Strategic Solutions, sat down with 3 parent advocates and activists to explore the complexities of school integration. Barbara Gross is a Principal Associate for Community Organizing and Engagement with the Annenberg Institute for School Reform. She is a White woman and mother. […]
Read more "Conversation with parent advocates on school integration"On Saturday, January 28th, 2017, Shaun King, writer and civil rights activist, wrote this on Facebook, “Today has been, without a doubt, one of the most despicably inhumane days in my lifetime as an American citizen. Grievously inhumane. This day will go down in history as a deeply unethical, unnecessary, unconstitutional day of pain and […]
Read more "Dear white folks, how will we march on?"Since the election, we have worked with educators around the country to strategize how to negotiate their roles working with our kids during times when we are navigating a space that has both surfaced some deep historical surges of hate and violence and ignited some unprecedented uncertainty… when our country will be run by a […]
Read more "1.20.17: What we can expect and what we can do"Van Jones categorized it as a whitelash. Jay Smooth tells us hate won. For those of you who are writing on Facebook: “How could America do this? How could this happen?” #wakeup. This has been happening. Generations of “America’s racially antagonistic foundation, history, present, zeitgeist, and legacy” (Young, 2016) have brought us to this moment. […]
Read more "Shock and awe: Two emotions. Neither of which we should feel after last night"A recent Pew research study found that 67% of white social media users do not post or share posts about race or racial issues on their timelines (Anderson and Hitlin, 2016). Rather, white social media users are more likely to see posts related to race and race relations, but the social media interaction often ends […]
Read more "Race Conversations in White Spaces: The End and the Beginning"“They’re afraid of the truth” was the statement uttered by former President Bill Clinton in his condemnation of Black Lives Matter protesters at a recent campaign rally for his wife, Secretary Hillary Clinton. A statement which so ironically and poignantly captured what critics of his 1994 Crime Bill have been claiming for the past 20 […]
Read more "“Not a Moment but a Movement”: Deconstructing the Myths Behind Black Lives Matter"
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