SMU Civil Rights Pilgrimage
Echoes Media wouldn't exist without the SMU Civil Rights Pilgrimage. In this episode of Echoes on air!, Janelle tells you why then she...
Doubly Invisible
<Ascends royally to her soapbox, grabs the megaphone, daintily clears her throat, waits for silence and yells…> FEMINISM IS NOT THE SAME...
We're Great Just Because We Are
At the beginning of every year, African Americans all around the country prepare for February with Black History Month. We become excited...
Hitting a Nerve: Teaching Black History in English Class
To paraphrase a friend’s reflection on being a black student during units on black history at her school in the UK: Year after year, it...
Teaching While Black
In the last article, "on the sidelines of history," Leila issued a challenge for Black History Month. One of her suggestions was to “read...
on the sidelines of history
February is Black History Month and I can’t help but compare this climate of change to the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. History...
If It Looks Like a Duck...
I was born in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn. My parents divorced when I turned five, and my mother, grandmother and I left...
