With Little League officially canceled, we spent the day in the CHAZ — on the first baseball field liberated from the Empire

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With Little League officially canceled, we spent the day in the CHAZ — on the first baseball field liberated from the Empire

It’s been one of the great joys of my life to share so much time with my son doing something we both love. Deep down, I think we had both known that this Little League baseball season was already lost, but still. It was a sad moment when we finally had to feel and acknowledge it.

What better place to be than on the first baseball field liberated from the Empire?

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All parents were summoned when George Floyd cried out for his Momma

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All parents were summoned when George Floyd cried out for his Momma

If you are a parent, George Floyd named you by name. We are on a path toward abolition. Consider that it took a Civil War to end chattel slavery, and that the Montgomery Bus Boycott alone lasted 382 days.

How committed are you to this? What will you do? And what will you keep doing?

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Black Male Educators: The Endgame

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Black Male Educators: The Endgame

Teachers as a whole are vastly underpaid, Black male educators are often in unsupportive environments, and the profession isn’t promoted (or respected) as a viable option in the canon of “careers.”

So why stay? How do we ask others to come? What are the conditions we can create, right where we are to make this seismic shift? Here are seven reasons that I’ve come up with (feel free to add more!)…

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Black History Today: Jerrell Davis, an unsung revolutionary

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Black History Today: Jerrell Davis, an unsung revolutionary

Many people speak of narrative change but are often afraid to be in the trenches. It takes an ecosystem to create change, yet often times those who are the champions for and by the people get overlooked, their revolutionary presence lost in photo ops and small victories.

Yet it was once said that you can kill a revolutionary, but you can’t kill the revolution. One man that embodies the revolutionary and the revolution is Jerrell G. Davis.

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