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The Golden Notebooks: July 2014
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Bound Free. Good. Bad. Yes. No. Capitalism. Socialism. Sex Love . . . " says Anna . . " Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebooks. Thursday, July 31, 2014. That city which the people from heaven had made their home": Thoughts on Baldwin's "Another Country". I thought these things would come to me. Love is another country, and I want to go -. I want to go too. I want to go with you. I want to go too. I want to go with you. I also remember her asking me if I'd read Another Country. About him. To the credit c...
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Skoolaid: February 2013
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My life and learnings as a Chicago Public School teacher. Friday, February 15, 2013. The Life and Death of a Girl in Chicago. She loved Fig Newtons and lip gloss.". When the Newtown shooting happened in December, I was certain that it would prove to be the catalyst for real anti-violence reform at the federal level. I was wrong. The real catalyst was not the death of two dozen innocent children; rather, it was the death of a single, defenseless girl. It matters, too, that Pendleton was just a girl. I'll ...
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Skoolaid: James Baldwin's Schools Now
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My life and learnings as a Chicago Public School teacher. Tuesday, February 5, 2013. James Baldwin's Schools Now. James Baldwin was born and raised in Harlem, and he attended three New York public schools. Recently while doing some writing on Baldwin I became curious about how Baldwin's schools were doing now, so I looked them up. This kind of research is inspired by one of my writing heroes, Jonathan Kozol. Who analyzes symbols like the names of schools. One of Baldwin's earlier television appearances (...