(Re)Teaching Trayvon Martin: Education for Racial Justice and Human Freedom Edited by Venus E. Evans-Winters and Magaela C. Bethune, "this edited volume a collection of essays that address the relationship between racial violence, media, the criminal justice system, and education. " Yours truly is the author of chapter 4- "From Tre Styles to Trayvon Martin: The Implications of Socially Constructed Identities on the George Zimmerman Verdict" "This book is unique in that it brings tog[...]
Last week, a group of San Diego students from Scripps Ranch High School were suspended when a video surfaced which featured the students twerking.[1] The video was both recorded and edited on school grounds using school property. The edited video featured the girls (almost all of whom appear to be white females) twerking. A young Black male appears in most frames standing next to, or between the legs of, the twerking young females. In total, 33 students were subjected to disciplinar[...]