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Posted Aug. 28, 2019
Coffee Break: Why Ramon Griffin Left Law to Change School Discipline
As a youth in Ford Heights, Illinois, Ramon Griffin grew up asking hard questions. Why did his ZIP code have so many schools on the…
Posted Mar. 19, 2019
Going to a Women’s HBCU Inspired Me to Fight for College Access for Everyone
At my small high school in East St. Louis, Illinois, going away to college was not accessible to all. The few most promising students were…
Posted Mar. 20, 2018
Being a First-Generation College Student Is Rough, So I Wrote a Book on How to Do It Better
We have to do a better job of preparing students for college. As a young man growing up in Columbus, Ohio, the messaging was to…
Posted Oct. 9, 2017
Video: I Never Had a Black Male Educator, So I Became One
Throughout my entire K-12 educational career, not once did I have a Black male educator. For nearly eight hours a day, and for 12 years,…
