The Talk: A Poem by Samnae Brown
While BMORE's Black Lives Matter Week of Action EVENTS got the most attention, what was most exciting to me as a teacher was the work that happened inside of classrooms across the city that week. In my 6th grade English classes, students had already been studying the poem If by Rudyard Kipling as part of the regular curriculum. We transferred the same skills used to analyze If for Maya Angelou's Still I Rise and Langston Hughes Mother to Son. After determining the meaning of
The Sun's Slanted Coverage of the Education Trust Fund Fix
On 12/5/17, Delegate Mary Washington, in collaboration with the Baltimore Movement Of Rank and file Educators (BMORE), released our proposal to restore trust in the Education Trust Fund. The Sun chose not to cover the effort. Since then, we have been pleased to see Democratic Leadership (1/30/18), and now Governor Hogan (2/14/18) follow our lead to ensure that casino funds supplement, and not supplant state funds for education. What has not been pleasing is The Sun’s narrow a
