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Writer. Teacher. Emerson Fellow . PhD Candidate . Author of Counting Descent.

Joined January 2012

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  1. Thanks so much for your kind words everyone. For those asking, the title of the dissertation is “What If They Open That Door One Day?”: What Education Means to People Sentenced to Juvenile Life Without Parole

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  2. Officially finished and submitted a full draft of my dissertation today. Wild feeling. So many years. So many pages. So much gratitude to the formerly incarcerated folks who shared their stories with me.

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    WEALTH INEQUALITY: The richest 1% controls more wealth now than at any time in more than 50 years. But what does wealth inequality really look like? turned America’s economic pie into a real one and asked people a simple question: Who gets what?

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    Y’all swear up and down people are brilliant businessmen with clever business models & the model is just wage theft, worker exploitation and tax evasion.

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    I am filled with rage at my middle school math teacher right now.

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    Jan 31

    The UNC System paid the Sons of Confederate Veterans $74,999 in an agreement $1 short of needing state approval. Both parties have been hiding the deal's larger purpose -- to facilitate a third-party payoff crucial in a larger plot of legal collusion:

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  7. "By the close of the Indian Wars in the late 19th century, fewer than 238,000 indigenous people remained, a sharp decline from the estimated 5 million to 15 million living in North America when Columbus arrived in 1492."

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    Election Day is only 10 months away. The President is an increasingly emboldened monster. The only way we're going to win back the White House is if we all work our asses off. Here's our guide to help you figure out how:

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    Jan 31

    I’ve been working on this—my first feature—for months. It’s the story of one family, split in half for no reason by Border Patrol. It’s also a story of how completely US border policy has changed in past yr. Lemme (ahem) explain. 1/

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    Jan 31

    Thread. As a the director of a study abroad program in Mexico and a historian of Latin America, teaching students about the legacies of colonialism in the Global South is my *jam*.

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    orlando patterson starts this review with a brief account of racial hierarchy in the united states and it is actually breathtaking

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    Jan 31

    Every so often I am reminded to reassess my 'gap year' experiences in Ghana and Togo... Of course, I naively thought I was fairly critically conscious even then, but I fear my eyes still have a long way to open.

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    Jan 30

    We did it. It’s happening. Colorado Senate just voted 19-15 to repeal the death penalty. We have the votes in the House. We know the Governor will sign the bill. Tmrw Senate does a final vote, but consider it done. We got this. Capital punishment is finally ending in Colorado.

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    Making his 1st appearance... Brandon Ingram of the . Drafted as the 2nd pick in 2016 out of Duke, is averaging 25.0 PPG, 6.3 RPG and 4.3 APG for the Pelicans this season.

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    Jan 26

    & what a small yet profound joy it is to be some- where that is not with you but to still be with you & see your feet dance beneath her rib cage like you knew we’d both be dancing together soon. —

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    You can still do this—a donation of ANY amount gets you entered to win

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  18. It's essential to give students the historical tools to make sense of the world around them. It's not a matter of being "objective." Keeping this history from them is an intentional decision with real implications for how they process the things they see when they travel abroad.

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  19. What does it mean to bring a young person to a country that they've never been to and to have them work in an orphanage or help build houses or help to deliver food, without explicitly naming the history that helped create the current landscape of inequality that currently exist?

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  20. Been thinking about international "service learning trips" & how so many students are taken to countries in the Global South & are given no information about the legacy of colonialism there. Doing so allows stereotypes to flourish in what should be a space of critical engagement.

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