Never Have I Ever…
Last year, my students told me about the game Never Have I Ever, which they enjoyed playing in their classrooms. In this game, someone says something that they have never done or has never happened to...
View ArticleInspiring Activists
Thanks to NetGalley and Bloomsbury USA Children’s Books- If ever there was a book to inspire future social justice activists, it is Saving Savannah by Tonya Bolden. This book also offers insight into...
View ArticleSticking Together
Most of the recently published material that I read comes from the library and, at least right now, I haven’t been making as many library trips as I used to. This has afforded me the opportunity to...
View ArticleBeing Together While We Are Apart
Around the world right now, we all have something in common; being kept apart. While some places around the world are starting to return to something resembling normal, there is a sense of insecurity...
View ArticleWho Tells the Story
In Color Me In, by Natasha Díaz, issues of belonging and advocacy are contemplated at the deepest of levels. The story begins with Nevaeh Levitz’s introduction to Harlem, where she is now living with...
View ArticleElevating Black Voices to Support Black Lives
I don’t know what to do or what to say. All I know is that doing and saying nothing is indefensible. Lately, I have been hearing so many people say that actions speak louder than words. This is often...
View ArticleWe Must Speak the Unspeakable
What happened in Washington, D.C., on January 6 was newsworthy, but it certainly wasn’t new. Violent attacks by mobs of white Americans carrying weapons are not as infrequent as so many of us like to...
View ArticleSecrets and Lies
The title of my blog, Teaching Social Justice with Children’s Books, did not seem dangerous or problematic when I chose it several years ago, but it does today. Parents, school boards, and government...
View ArticleIntroducing an Icon
The endpapers of Jimmy’s Rhythm & Blues: The Extraordinary Life of James Baldwin, are full of photographs of Baldwin with his wonderful gap-toothed smile. Even someone with no prior knowledge of...
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