Guest Blogger
Education Writer
Oakland, California
Tre Johnson is a freelance writer on race, culture and politics. He’s also an educator, advocate and part-time superhero. If you’ve been working in education or activism and would like to share your story, contact him at trejohns@gmail.com.
“Can you see me after school about this?” was scrawled across the last page of my essay in that trademark…
When the transformation of 13th Street was proposed by a New York developer named Tony Goldman, many balked at his…
“Don’t mess it up.” Those words rode the bus with Quibila Divine in the late 1960s and early ’70s from…
Alright, Black people—let’s push past Ice Cube’s meeting with Trump and 50 Cent’s declaration supporting his reelection. Yes we love hot tea and messiness from…
Considered me triggered. Again. This past Sunday my 8 Black Hands crew did a show on the missing importance of school boards, and then this article pops…
One afternoon in March 2010, Khaliah Fitchette, a 16-year-old student at Newark’s University High School, was riding home on a NJ Transit bus with her…
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