201725 pages
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I want to talk now about the school that compelled me to change the way I teach and speak. It was on the South Side of Chicago, in a predominantly black neighborhood called Bronzeville that was being punished by poverty...
201714 pages
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The other kids in my 6th grade class were laughing and having a good time, but I couldn’t even find it in myself to smile. I sat there numb. Calloused. Hardened. The night before, I had heard the sound of crashing...
201712 pages
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I remember walking into the gymnasium of one of the lowest-performing schools in the state. Soon it would be filled with more than 3,000 African American high school students. The district administrator who had invited...
201710 pages
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Every one of you has a voice, and I am going to help you find it, because the world needs to hear it. So I want you to pick up these journals, and I want you to write. I want you to write about that time you lost your...
201710 pages
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When I was in high school, a substitute history teacher played a video that changed my life. It was a recording of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech. Delivered in 1963 on the steps of the...
201710 pages
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I’ll never forget the cowboy who changed my life. After I finished speaking to a group of leaders and educators at a conference in Rockwall, Texas, they stood on their feet and blessed me with a long and enthusiastic...
20179 pages
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After reading my journal entries and observing the way I carried myself, Ms. G. pulled me aside one day and said, “Manny, you have to go to college. Do you want to go to college?” “Thank you,” I replied, “but no one in...
20176 pages
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The day had finally come. Standing on the stage at the University of California at Berkeley’s Hearst Greek Theater in my cap and gown, waiting to receive my degree, I looked out at the nearly 9,000 people from all over...
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I want to talk now about the school that compelled me to change the way I teach and speak. It was on the South Side of Chicago, in a predominantly black neighborhood called Bronzeville that was being punished by poverty...