'The story of the economy is also a story of place. Marsha Music is the author of The Detroitist: An Anthology About Detroit . Music has lived her entire life in Detroit and Highland Park, which she describes as a “city within the city of Detroit.” Music spoke about her city and the overlaps of the city’s history with that of her family.' -- Marketplace
In this episode of WUNC's #BackChannel , contributors Natalie Bullock Brown and Mark Anthony Neal join State of Things host Frank Stasio to discuss Sen. Kamala Harris 's historic candidacy for Vice-President, collegiate sports in the moment of COVID-19, the finale of OWN's Greenleaf , the HBO documentary Yusef Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn , and Beyonce's Black is King .
' Coffee and Books host Marc Lamont Hill is in conversation with New York Times Best Selling author, activist, and cultural critic, Mikki Kendall . The two break down her latest book Hood Feminism, and why she believes the feminist movement isn’t one size fits all.'
' Lumumba and Monifa Bandele talk about the history of Black August, continuing the legacy of freedom fighters and the Black August Hip Hop project.' -- The Real News Network
' Lovecraft Country stars Jurnee Smollett , Jonathan Majors , Courtney B. Vance , Aunjanue Ellis , Michael Kenneth Williams , Wunmi Mosaku and creator Misha Green sit down with Variety anchor/reporter Audrey Yap and explain why the sci-fi/horror genre is perfect for telling stories about racial injustice and why releasing the HBO show now feels particularly relevant.'
'In this episode of The Tight Rope , Dr. Cornel West and Professor Tricia Rose nail down issues of white allyship, undoing invisible racist ideologies, and the hallmarks of possessive investment in whiteness with their beloved guest Professor George Lipsitz . They provide commentary on the leadership of the Black freedom movement of the past and present as well as the “slow violence” of racism ro
'On episode 94 of the Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengrรคber is joined by poet and writer Claudia Rankine . Rankine talks with Holdengrรคber about her upcoming book, Just Us: An American Conversation , and how it addresses what it means to talk about race in this country. They discuss how she
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(Note: I am going to publish this same post once each month to remind regular readers and inform newer ones about how to access my “Best” lists) As regular readers know, I have about 2,100 categorized and regularly updated “Best” lists. You can find all of them in broad categories here . The link to that page can also be found at the top right of my blog: My Best Of Series I also have them all on
Q&A Collections: Learning & the Brain is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. All Classroom Q&A posts on Learning & the Brain (from the past nine years!) are described and linked to in this compilation post. Here’s an excerpt from one of them:
geralt / Pixabay Here are new additions to THE BEST POSTS PREDICTING WHAT SCHOOLS WILL LOOK LIKE IN THE FALL : “This is exactly what we’ve been warning about”: Why some school reopenings have backfired is from Vox. Why New York Teachers Might Have to Strike is from The Atlantic.
I’m taking a few days off from publishing new posts this week. I thought that new – and veteran – readers might find it interesting if I began sharing my best posts from over the years. You can see the entire collection here . As regular readers know, I have students in my high school and my college classes complete anonymous evaluations of the courses and of me at the end of each semester, and p
ElisaRiva / Pixabay JSTOR, one of the primary gatekeepers of academic research, just announced that anyone will have access to as many as 100 articles each month – for free. You can read about it at JSTOR resources during COVID-19 . Of course, there are other ways to gain free access to these journals (see The Best Tools For Academic Research ), but JSTOR’s move may make it a bit easier for many
AnnaliseArt / Pixabay Here are three new additions to A BEGINNING LIST OF THE BEST RESOURCES FOR LEARNING ABOUT THE CORONAVIRUS : COVID-19’s death and suffering could lead us to rebirth, as the bubonic plague did in Europe is from NBC News. America’s uniquely bad Covid-19 epidemic, explained in 18 maps and charts is from Vox. How Do Masks Really Help Us? is a lesson plan and this video from KQED:
I’ve been leading some professional development sessions for our school’s staff this summer. I thought readers might find three of the slides from my most recent one useful – on the possibilities and perils of tech. Let me know
