Educational Resources & Tech Tools 03/16/2021

• 'Black Season' at My White Middle School

  • It was our responsibility to make sure that our peers knew that an HBCU wasn’t an H&R Block for black folks. As students, we were also teachers. We just weren’t on the faculty payroll.
  • It’s nearly impossible to find a black kid in a predominantly white school who is unfamiliar with the idea of speaking for the race
  • We survivors all have our stories of fatigue and indignation at the moments when something black would emerge in the classroom and white kids’ heads swiveled in our direction in unison, expecting us to pick up the narration.

  • in the Black History Month show, we got to control the narrative."

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.