by professor kenyatta | May 27, 2026 | education, Racism
Every Lesson They Taught Us Was a Choice — and So Was Every Lesson They Didn’t We cannot address systemic racism in education without first naming it for what it is. Systemic racism in education is not a relic of the past — it is the water our children are still...
by professor kenyatta | May 25, 2026 | Racism, education
They Didn’t Forget to Teach Us the Truth. They Chose Not To. Racism in American education history did not happen by accident. The American education system did not simply tolerate racism. It was built into it — by design, from the beginning. And we have been paying...
by professor kenyatta | May 23, 2026 | Hidden Scholars
They never put him in your textbook. That wasn’t an accident. The Man Whom Schools Pretended Didn’t Exist Let me ask you something. When you were sitting in your high school history class learning about “the cradle of civilization,” did your...
by professor kenyatta | Feb 1, 2022 | Racism
C. Wright slowly turned his headand his gazeaway from me for a moment. It appeared as if he was going to give me a break. But when he looked back at me, with the stare of an assassin, I knew it wasn’t a reprieve. He wasn’t letting me off the hook. He was about...