Public Writing
Explore a selection of public writing, focusing on key themes in education, social justice, and the legacy of Black educators. These publications have sparked important conversations and continue to resonate with readers and scholars alike.
Op-Eds and Articles in Popular Outlets
I’ve contributed to The Washington Post, TIME, and Chalkbeat, addressing key topics in education, Black history, and racial equity to bring these discussions to a broader audience.
Stanford Public Scholarship Collaborative
Stand Up and Speak to It: Learning from the Historical Legacies of Bay Area Black Teachers
A collaborative project highlighting the contributions of Black teachers in the Bay Area, exploring their impact on education and social justice.
Washington Post
In Chicago, schools closed during a 1937 polio epidemic and kids learned from home — over the radio
Today’s crisis is unprecedented in its effects on the country’s institutions, population and economic, with much of public life stopped. But schools have closed before because of a viral outbreak in different cities, and students were sent home to do distance learning.
TIME magazine
Want to Support Black Students? Invest in Black Teachers
rowing up with Black teachers as mothers, we lived in households where discussions of education were ever-present, involved and sometimes, to our annoyance as children, inescapable. Both of our moms spent their years in the classroom fighting to replace outdated and racially biased curricula, clashing with colleagues who substituted punishment for pedagogy, particularly when dealing with Black students, and struggling against the low expectations of administrators with limited visions of Black potential.
Chalkbeat
It’s time for teachers — and textbooks — to capitalize the “B” in Black
As teacher educators and historians who study American education, we know that how and what we teach students about race has been controversial and contested for centuries.
Chalkbeat
Madeline Morgan fought to teach Black history in schools. 80 years on, her vision is not yet realized.
The words were written by Louis Brown,* a Black eighth grader at Emerson Elementary in Chicago. I first read them in late 2020, against a backdrop formed by the racial and economic inequities exposed by the pandemic, the seemingly daily drumbeat of police killings, and the surging protest movement for Black Lives.