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 don’t know about you, but I can’t just sit by and watch. It’s time for action. The latest battleground in the national war on…
In 2016, I gave money to the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign. It was and remains the first and only time I have ever given a…
About two years ago this time I had to write an explainer piece when the NAACP pushed for a moratorium on public charter schools. The…
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