In this interview, Husslington Post correspondent, Amil Cook, goes in depth with journal/scholar/activist Daniela Gomes about her fight against racism in Brazil. This is the first installment in what we hope will become a series of interviews by Am...
The original title of Thomas Chatterton Williams’s book, Losing My Cool: Love, Literature, and a Black Man’s Escape from the Crowd was Losing My Cool: How a Father’s Love and 15,000...
Today is the ninth anniversary of the death of a friend and former student. Jacob Delgado was 19 when he was shot and killed on Broad Street in Providence, RI. He was an artist and employee at the ...
I spend a lot of time in conversations about how to improve high schools. In these conversations, it is almost always assumed that the best measure of a high school’s success is whether studen...
As Rakim twice said, “It’s been a long time.” Apologies for the stagnancy of this site. I was wrapping up my book, Hip Hop Genius, which took all of my writing energy and time for ...
Photo by Angelis Baez Like all conferences, education convenings can be boring. This sucks for those of us who attend them. It also sucks for the millions of young people who are counting on us to...
Greetings Earthlings. Two new pieces up this week. Check out the quick descriptions and click through to read the articles! Appetite for Synthetic Beef This week a conservative blogger/media persona...
I’ve got a new idea for how to handle Wall Street. Well, actually, it’s an old idea… As you may know, our federal government is working on legislation to regulate Wall Street to pr...
The other day I was riding the train from New York to Providence. Somewhere in Connecticut, a big man with an Irish accent got on and sat down across from me. He struck up a conversation about all...
Greetings everyone! Sorry things have been quiet on the site lately. I have been on the road for the past three weeks and have not had much time to write. When I have been writing, I’ve ha...