Tanesha Peeples
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Posted Oct. 10, 2018
How This Organization Is Developing Communities With Education at Its Core
A great school is vital to every community, but it’s only one part. A new organization, Maslow Development Inc., knows…
Posted Sep. 28, 2018
The Kids Aren’t Here for Half-Baked Schoolwork and Shady Politics
Outrage: If They Don’t Believe In Them, They Shouldn’t Be Teaching Them This was my story entering freshman year of…
Posted Sep. 21, 2018
It Doesn’t Take a Miracle to Educate Kids of Color
Outrage: We’re Wasting Time Last week I went to my first Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s Annual Legislative Conference. I came…
Posted Sep. 14, 2018
That’s Right, I’m on the Roland Martin Bandwagon
Outrage: Access Still Denied Last week, my mentor and sister in the struggle, Kenya Bradshaw, dropped a gem at the…
Posted Aug. 31, 2018
I’ve Never Been Quick to Call Someone Racist, But I’ve Had Enough of This ‘Monkey’ Business
Outrage: We’re Not Your Monkey, Nigger, Niggah or Nigga I want to believe that everyone who “accidentally” says, “nigga,” “niggah”…
Posted Aug. 31, 2018
8 Million Stories Is Here to End the School-to-Prison Pipeline
Our Black boys aren’t served by the education system. Period. So many of them are sent right into the correctional…
Posted Aug. 23, 2018
Why Waste Time With School, Just Send Black Kids Right to Jail
Outrage: Just Send Black Kids Right to Jail Clinton Stanley Sr. couldn’t understand. “You deny a kid an education on…
Posted Aug. 15, 2018
Turns Out There Are Dope Education Warriors in Rhode Island
OUTRAGE Recently, I wrote a piece about the kids who won’t be returning to school this fall because they were…
Posted Aug. 9, 2018
Here’s How Daniel Anello and Kids First Chicago Put Families in the Position to Succeed
In all my years of working to bring better school choices to families on Chicago’s South and West Sides, it’s…
Posted Aug. 3, 2018
There’s No Back to School for the Kids Who Get Shot and Killed
Outrage: They’re Dying More than 60 youth have been shot here in Chicago this year. At least 20 of those…
