New Orleans Phil Allen, Jr. is younger than I am, but he was quick to agree with me when we were talking about Darnella Frazier and her fast phone fingers in Minneapolis. She’s the young woman, now widely recognized, including with a Pulitzer Prize, who had the presence of mind and the dexterity …
Category: Wade’s World
Hotlanta, No Longer a Place for Black, Brown, and Poor?
Pearl River Atlanta bills itself as the Queen City of the South, an international hub with perhaps the world’s busiest airport, multiple corporate headquarters, and more depending on the day of the week, and where it can make a buck. Inarguably, it’s a great city that in recent years has grown like topsy. The …
Fighting Back Against Teaching to the Job
New Orleans In the battleground against privatization of public education at the kindergarten through high school level, the dominance of corporate-infused governmental neoliberalism has made “teaching to the test” the core of the curriculum project. Talking to Marcy Rein, one of the co-authors of Free City: The Fight for San Francisco’s City College …