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…
I could be Bernie Sanders’ daughter. After all, my parents were much like him, children of Eastern European Jewish immigrants who settled in New York…
Last week, I received a text from “Karen from Mike Bloomberg’s campaign.” She wrote that “with so much at stake, Americans deserve a Democratic candidate…
News flash: We have been celebrating Black History Month all wrong. Black History Month (originally “Negro History Week”) was started by Carter G. Woodson in…
Sign up for weekly emails featuring our top blog posts:
