Tre Johnson

Here’s What It’s Like to Have a Teacher Think You Can’t Write Because You’re a Black Boy From Trenton
“Can you see me after school about this?” was scrawled across the last page of my essay in that trademark punitive red ink that teachers…

Schools May Be a Battleground in Philadelphia, But These Parents and Activists Aren’t Scared of the Fight
When the transformation of 13th Street was proposed by a New York developer named Tony Goldman, many balked at his vision of a new Philadelphia.…

These Two Sisters Aren’t Afraid to Get Messy If It Means Better Schools for Philadelphia’s Kids
“Don’t mess it up.” Those words rode the bus with Quibila Divine in the late 1960s and early ’70s from North Philadelphia to the predominantly…