By Nora Flanagan, Northside College Prep | March 19, 2020 | Chicago Union Teacher, Features, News
File under: coronavirus, COVID-19, Nora Flanagan, Northside College Prep, Voices of the Rank-and-File
It wasn’t my best moment. I wasn’t especially proud, as the one in my family who has always been the rock in times of crisis, that I was sitting on the edge of my bed crying, and I couldn’t really even articulate why.
By Erik Young, King College Prep | February 19, 2020 | Chicago Union Teacher, Features, News
File under: Black History Month, Erik Young, King College Prep
I’m scorned, adorned, and often forewarned / That the way I perform, is because I am a unicorn / A Black Man in a teacher’s uniform. Far from the norm. / A rarity in a sea of disparity, trying to seek clarity / But at times, my work is viewed as charity.
