I’m writing this from the back of a second-grade classroom, where I was called in as an emergency substitute to be the legally certificated adult in the room while a student teacher oversees the class. I sit here at the … Continue reading From the Back of the Classroom
The souls of Black children, inasmuch as their biological DNA, bear the marks of generations of the psychological lynching of Black identity through the whitewashing, suppression, and attempted silencing of Black Story. Continue reading Black & White: The Archetype of Lynching Children
By Carl McRoy Growing up in church, there was a song that the little kids loved and the big kids loathed. It was the repetitive, fidgety, and annoyingly memorable. . . “Father Abraham had many sons And many sons had … Continue reading Children of the King
If there must be ashes, then let our ashes enrich a garden of shalom. If my generation must fight through fire and rebuild cities from rubble, then I pray that our children will take our swords and beat them into plowshares and build a better world. Continue reading Swords and Plowshares
Three-Fifths 