Being a critical equity educator, means naming & fighting against all forms of oppression in education & schooling.
It also means naming & speaking out against genocide
“We must ask why the humane and principled policies offered to Ukrainians are not extended to people fleeing Palestine and Sudan. In the absence of any justification from Canada… what is the cause but anti-Black and anti-Palestinian racism?” 3 doctors ask https://t.co/MlYlXvG7u3
Join us this #BlackHistoryMonth as we explore art as a platform of social justice: from literary, visual, performing, musical to digital arts and more, the theme chosen by @ASALH.
Happy Birthday to Langston Hughes poet and writer. One of his many verses was in my thesis. And we share the same birthday
Teach his works all year long
It is the start of #BlackHistoryMonth
Embed Black Excellence and knowledge all year long in the curriculum
Teach students that Black History didn't start with european enslavement.
Research & teach all the greatness that existed on the continent of Africa before colonization
"People who are changing their minds about views that are deeply entrenched—especially when that changed mind might cost them work, relationships, social capital—should be met with radical empathy," writes Hala Alyan https://t.co/o97f0XzNEs
BREAKING: Israel bombed Syria this morning, targeting a residential neighborhood in Damascus.
Israel is bombing 3 different countries at the same time, namely Lebanon, Syria and Palestine, and total silence of course from both the media and the international community.
University of Ottawa doctor reinstated after suspension for pro-Palestinian posts says he won't go back. Complaints said he used “apartheid” & “settler colonialism” in posts. His research has focused on Indigenous health, anti-racism and decolonization. https://t.co/C4P2B2Uhy7
Three police officers went to an *elementary* school in Tennessee & arrested four Black girls.
One girl fell to her knees. Another threw up. Police handcuffed the youngest, an 8 yo with pigtails.
Their supposed crime? Watching some boys fight — and not stopping them. (THREAD)
Do you know what day tomorrow is? Dec 9, “The International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Prevention of this Crime.”
Right now there is a genocide happening in Palestine and none of our leaders who claim to respect democracy and human rights are doing a damn thing to prevent it. Shame and disgust.
Novelist Jesmyn Ward on Life in Mississippi, Love Through Grief, and Her New Novel
The author—who won National Book Awards for Sing, Unburied, Sing and Salvage the Bones—is out with Let Us Descend
https://t.co/rE5IiA9Ijx
Awarded the 2023 Multicultural Book Award by NAME! More fabulously, the co-winner of this award was the fabulous book by Toby Jenkins, The Hip Hop Mindset, which I nominated! @KatySwalwell