REMINDER WEEK 50 - JUNE 6, 2021Before we forget, here’s our website of past newsletters, here’s a link to subscribe to our Patreon, here’s an anonymous question bank for anyone who wants to keep their questions private, here’s a fund tracker that breaks down how we spend our money, and here’s the link to sign up to receive these newsletters if someone forwarded …
Police Unions
Hi friends,We have missed you! Sorry we are so late with this (this email has been in our drafts for 3.5 weeks now but life is chaotic and what can you do?) So it goes - the past month has been all over the place but that doesn’t change our commitment to showing up here. When …
Copaganda
NEWSLETTER WEEK 48 - APRIL 27, 2021 Hi friends, Before we get into the history of policing we want to pause a moment to share the names of just a few of the people who were killed by the police just in the week that has passed since our last newsletter. It feels important, albeit …
Policing’s History Explains Its Present
NEWSLETTER WEEK 47 - APRIL 20, 2021 Hi friends,Thank you so much to everyone who could make it to our first dialogue in a while on Sunday. We apologize for the technical difficulties that started us off but we were really thankful to see a few of your smiling faces on the other side of …
What We CAN Do About Police Violence
NEWSLETTER WEEK 46 - APRIL 14, 2021 Hi friends,It is with extremely heavy hearts we’re starting this week’s newsletter. By now you’ve seen the news that Daunte Wright was shot by an officer during a traffic stop Sunday night. The lump in our chest just cannot be dislodged this week: Daunte Wright was twenty years …
The School-to-Prison Pipeline
ROUNDUP WEEK 45 - APRIL 9, 2021 Hi friends,Heading into the weekend, we’re reading and rereading this incredible poem by Tsitsi Ella Jaji - “To Bless the Memory of Tamir Rice.” It feels particularly poignant in the midst of the Derek Chauvin criminal trial.Today we’re talking about a phrase that we hear tossed around a …
Other Ways Racism Is Embedded in the Education System
NEWSLETTER WEEK 45 - APRIL 6, 2021 Hi friends,We didn’t mean to take an accidental sabbatical but life happens sometimes. We can start with some fun personal updates: Ellie’s back in the classroom doing hybrid teaching and skiing the final snow-covered weekends of the year in Colorado, Hayden’s finishing her junior year at Cornell, and …
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To #StopAsianHate, We Need Historical Honesty
ROUNDUP WEEK 42 - MARCH 19, 2021 Hi friends,There is no appropriate way to begin this newsletter. By now, we’ve all spent the past few days watching the headlines roll in: eight people, six of them Asian women, were killed in an act of racist, misogynist violence on Tuesday night across three Atlanta spas.To start …
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Education: Antiracist Districts, Schools, Classrooms, and Teachers
NEWSLETTER WEEK 42 - MARCH 16, 2021 Hi friends,To borrow the wise words of our friend Dr. Keiko Cooley, “Our past experiences shape the lens through which we view the world.” Our past experiences within the education system are no exception. In fact, education molds us in such formative ways that it is often difficult …
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Education: Standardized Testing
ROUNDUP WEEK 40 - MARCH 5, 2021 Hi friends,It’s Friday and we’re back to continue our series on racism and the education system, this time with an abbreviated but important lesson about standardized testing. We won’t wax poetic about whiteness and shame and how it’s okay to feel whatever you feel reading and remembering your …
UNLEARNING RACISM 