Guest Blogger
Teacher, Frederick Douglass Academy for Young Men
Detroit, Michigan
Quan Neloms is a teacher in Detroit. Seven years ago, he started Lyricist Society, a program that engages young people by using hip-hop in the classroom at Frederick Douglass Academy for Young Men in Detroit.
I began teaching at 22. Back in my hometown of Detroit and fresh out of college, I thought I had all the answers.…
“Independence Day” is upon us. But Black fam’, before we get geeked to partake in such traditions as backyard barbecues and celebratory fireworks commemorating a…
On Friday U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos released a statement celebrating the 56th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act, passed in 1957 by a Republican-controlled…
The latest episodes of police murdering Black people have my chest burning like a building set ablaze. My heart is hot, my stomach churns. My…
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