[caption id="attachment_423" align="alignright" width="196"] Miriam Makeba's album Sangoma was the beginning of my education about South Africa.[/caption] Unbeknownst to her, my mother was one of the first people in my life to introduce me to the honesty, activism and complexity…
March 15, 2016
Miriam Makeba, the Mahotella Queens and Me
March 2, 2016
Traveler of the Month: Conquering Glaciers in Patagonia with Shawn
After a challenging 2015, Shawn Dye decided he needed a change of pace and a fresh start. On the insistence of a friend and work colleague, he took the leap and traveled to Patagonia on the southernmost tip of South America…
February 20, 2016
Representation Matters: Eating Gnocchi with Ms. Messiah
Ms. Messiah was a pretty, Black, deeply accented Texan with an easy laugh. And she was tough. You had to work hard in her 8th grade social studies class to get what could be considered a passing grade and…
February 15, 2016
Global Citizenship: Redefining Multicultural Education
Growing up in a small, liberal, diverse New England city in the 80's it wasn't good education if it wasn't “multicultural”. We were about to get rid of Reagan. PBS's children's programming was still blossoming into an educational and ethnically diverse…