Guest Blogger
Student, Amherst College
Oak Park, Illinois
Anjanique Barber is a sophomore at Amherst College, where she is studying pre-law and French, rows for the women’s crew team and works as a student tour guide. She is a graduate of Oak Park River Forest High School.
Schools are systematically designed to fail minority students. The system tells Black students, in overt and subtle ways, they will never be as smart or educated as their White classmates.…
I remember the sense of envy that hit me four years ago when my AP Government teacher asked: “So, who…
All the things that we spent so much time stressing about since ninth grade don’t seem so important right now.…
Many of our Belief Gap pieces have dealt with the gap between adult and student expectations. This piece comes from…
Outrage: Black Kids Are Dumb, Poor and Incapable of Success Do y’all remember the line from “The Color Purple,” “I’m poor, I’m Black…I may even…
My son is a freshman in high school and this felt like my first report card pick up all over again. While I have access…
As parents dropping our children off at school, many of us may wonder, will they have a good day? Will they do their best? Will…
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