"Marriage is for white people."

This is what a male student told Joy Jones in an elementary school in Southeast D.C.
That’s what one of my students told me some years back when I taught a career exploration class for sixth-graders at an elementary school in Southeast Washington. I was pleasantly surprised when the boys in the class stated that being [...]

Invisible Man: The Black Man’s Journey from Invisibility to Intimidation

Ralph Ellison’s seminal work, Invisible Man, portrayed the frustrations of black life before the Civil Rights Movement. Anger, betrayal and stifling anonymity are constant themes of the book. In fact, the reader never learns the name of the main character. The novel’s main character struggles to gain his own identity–to be free from the expectations [...]

How Much More?

The New York Times posted an article late last night about yet another memo that shows Bush was pushing toward war despite his public pronouncements. The memo is incredibly detailed about a private two-hour meeting on January 31, 2003, with President Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair. The memo is a summary [...]