BY STUDENTS OF TC We have initiated several student-led events to find community within a campus that lacks diversity across several domains: in curriculum, and underrepresented minority faculty and students. Our most recent die-in was planned in solidarity for Mike Brown and Eric Garner, and the letter was written as part of a collaborative agenda… Read More An Open Letter to President Fuhrman
BY AARON BARKSDALE My experience as a gendered and racial being, a black male, has been heightened in the recent police killings of other black men. In a lecture at The New School, bell hooks referred to these deaths as “contemporary lynchings.” She goes on to say that the historical point of such a practice… Read More A Response to a Provocation
BY JAMILA LYISCOTT The recurring articulation that “Black Lives Matter” throughout the 2014 social upheaval sparked by the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO is an indictment on the United States of America at large. The urgency of chanting, screaming, branding, and making viral this fundamental truth means simply that as a nation we… Read More Inscribing Racial Justice: Black Lives, Literacy, and the Pedagogy of Racial Politics
BY MATT GONZALES Opinion: A Discussion about the Role of Police The recent killings of Michael Brown and Eric Garner at the hands of the police, (along with Tamir Rice, Cameron Tillman, VonDerrit Meyers Jr., Laquan McDonald, Carey Smith-Viramontes, Jeffrey Holden, Qusean Whitten, Miguel Benton, Dillon McGee, Levi Weaver, Karen Cifuentes, Sergrio Ramos, Roshad McIntosh,… Read More A Discussion about the Role of Police
BY DAKOTA CINTRON On November 6th, 2014 the Center for New York City Affairs (CNYCA) released the 72 page report, A Better Picture of Poverty: What Chronic Absenteeism and Risk Load Reveal About NYC’s Lowest-Income Elementary Schools. The 2014 CNYCA report is an update and refinement of the agencies pioneering 2008 report on chronic absenteeism.… Read More Absenteeism and Poverty
BY MARIA GUO The Education Policy and Social Analysis (EPSA) department hosted its annual Open House reception program on November 14th. The goal of this Open House is to give prospective students an opportunity to connect with current students and faculty and learn more about our programs. Over 60 students RSVP’d for the event and… Read More Recommendations to Improve TC Synergy
BY NICOLE ELAINE AVERY Paralyzed by unforgettable echoes and unimaginable shrieks, Engulfed by high pitched octaves uttered in choral, Each shrill more piercing than its predecessor, Silenced Voices… Swallowing the space and my spirit, The rising stench of re-dampened feces concocted with limbs drowning in murky morass reality engender the ambivalence, Daunting shadows of… Read More A Silenced Senegal
BY KAMIYA KUMAR From the lens of peace education, I often struggle with what does peace education look like in schools? Does it mean teaching about the concept of war and peace? Could it mean re-aligning certain structures and systems so that structural violence is contested? Or could it also mean building a sense of… Read More Peace Education Reflections
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