How did we get here with public education? The history regarding standardized testing, student loan debt, and Reagan based policy development, that insidiously undermined public education, to keep from having an “educated proletariat”, over the past few decades. newuniversity.org/2023/02/13/r...

If we want to go forward, it’s important to understand the history of different issues, while engaging in critical thinking, empathy, and discussion in our communities. Knowledge is power.

✨"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any." ✨ - Alice Walker

“But there’s a message there for everyone and it is that people can unite, that democracy from below can challenge oligarchy, that imprisoned migrants can be freed, that fascism can be overcome, and that equality is emancipatory.” - Angela Davis

“Whenever you conceptualize social justice struggles, you will always defeat your own purposes if you cannot imagine the people around whom you are struggling as equal partners.”
- Angela Davis

“Our histories never unfold in isolation. We cannot truly tell what we consider to be our own histories without knowing the other stories. And often we discover that those other stories are actually our own stories.” - Angela Davis