Timothy Berry, a lifelong Minnesotan, is helping prepare future school principals and district superintendents, while also celebrating Black culture through his talents in music and the arts, and using both roles to remember and build on those who came before us in the effort to move ourselves forward.
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Toward an education that explores our cultural heritage
The Cultural Wellness Center in Minneapolis is working to redefine freedom for African Americans by shifting the focus from equal rights to self-study, acknowledging history, and honoring culture, and Julia Berry is a key part of this effort.
Posted inOpinion
Trump’s broken promises are piling up
Donald Trump has broken many of his campaign promises, including lowering grocery prices, ending the war in Ukraine, and overturning Biden’s electric vehicle mandate, as he has not followed through on his plans to do so.
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Author examines roots of American racism
In his book ‘Teaching White Supremacy,’ author Donald Yacavone, lays out a stark roadmap into the complex societal ill of racism.
Posted inOpinion
The national assault on a Black curriculum
A Black curriculum designed to help students think critically about social hierarchies is being stifled by right-wing politics.
Posted inOpinion
Academic curriculum is a racial battlefield
Right-wing policy institutes, media outlets and politicians are conniving to stifle antiracist educational projects.
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College ‘answers the call’ with new racial justice program
The Racial Justice and Social Transformation Certificate is designed to build a cultural skill set relevant to every career and complements anyone in or pursuing a leadership role.
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Critical race theory and the banning of Black authors in schools, libraries, and prison
Since September 2021, at least 230 challenges have been made against Black-authored books.
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Critical Race Theory controversy is about denial of truth
Money-saturated right-wingers have seized the term strategically as a convenient rallying cry for their agenda.
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Democrats failure at the federal level causes catastrophic losses in Virginia, elsewhere
In a state that President Joe Biden won by 10 points one year ago, the incumbent Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe not only lost to Republican Glenn Youngkin, but the race proved close to a landslide.
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Right-wing efforts to erase history do not change the facts
Blotting out history to protect reputations or to prevent perceived criticism of races may be a feel-good exercise for some but it blurs reality and leads to ignorance.
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Bans on critical race theory could have a chilling effect on how educators teach about racism
‘How can a teacher in Iowa or Tennessee explain that the U.S. was not ‘fundamentally racist,’ yet at the time of its founding, race-based slavery was legal and stayed that way until after the Civil War?’
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Critical Race Theory and the debate over U.S. history
What is needed at this time is recognizing what has occurred in the past and how it has shaped our present reality.
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Critical race theory backlash would keep the truth hidden
Critical race theory is really just a proxy battle in a much larger war over dueling narratives…