When I consider the steady stream of changes at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), I would alter those lyrics to “What a Difference a Director Makes”.
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Who would have thought that in less than 15 days, I would have to coordinate and manage 1,000 young, Black student leaders from over 24 cities on 17 buses in the name of gun reform and safety?
What happened to Black society?
If we got 100 teachers in a room, statistically I would be one of just two Black males in that room and one of 50 who will leave the profession within our first five years. I am now in my fifth year of teaching and I want to stay where I am.
Low net worth means low performing schools
Why do Americans need violence and guns in 2018?
I will start by thanking the students of Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High school for stepping up to the plate that Blacks in the past had to face against dangerous tactics that included murder, and currently were ordered by American laws that stifled them from protesting and by using the legal right to speak out about what was not right happening to their race because of their color.
We Just Say No
Fair housing’s unfinished 50-year journey
Protest. Petition. Call your senators. Nothing changes, right? No matter how large our demonstrations get, no matter how many millions of people write and petition politicians, no matter how many people get arrested in front of the White House or at our state capitols, it seems that our (supposedly) elected officials keep turning a blind eye and deaf ear to our cries for change.