For White Folx Who Teach in the Hood...and the Rest of Y'all TooDrawing on his own experience of feeling undervalued and invisible in classrooms as a young man of color and merging his experiences with more than a decade of teaching and researching in urban America, award winning educator Christopher Emdin offers a new lens on an approach to teaching and learning in urban schools. For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood and the Rest of Y'all Too is the much needed antidote to traditional top down pedagogy and

Lorde is unflinching in her observations and is lucid and clarifying in her coverage of a range of essential topics

In Everything

So slow down and really look and listen

Now on the run

amidst his teacher's lectures on the historical benefits of slavery and the modern-day prison system

and he eventually agrees to come back to her house

both are now artists-he a photographer

But he can't decide what's worse: being a medium forced to watch the dead play out their last moments on a loop or being at the mercy of racist teachers as one of the few Black students at St

Adapted from the award-winning

LeBron James knows the key to a better future is to excel in school

and she pours all her frustration and passion onto the pages of a leather notebook

This collection presents readers with a moral choice: "Will you continue to be actively complicit in the perpetuation of these systems