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Author Archives: Sikivu Hutchinson
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Myra Howard, 16, believed missing in South L.A.
Despite a groundswell of national protest and exposure by activists of color, missing African American…
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How schools and the media criminalize Black girls
High stakes test question: A female science student conducts an experiment with chemicals that explode…
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The spectator sport of Black women bashing
In the 1990s, The O.J. Simpson murder trial polarized America and highlighted domestic violence as…
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Decriminalizing truancy in the LAUSD
Recently, in a class discussion about youth not having a voice at school,…
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A second look at the rate of African American suspensions
As an assistant principal with 29 years of experience in South L.A. schools, John Alvarez…
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Educations hall of shame, but whos to blame?
Sitting in the sparsely filled auditorium of Gardena High School in Los Angeles at the…
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The rape of American women and Planned Parenthood
Lately, the sound of galloping hooves and rustling white sheets has risen in a deafening…
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Throwaway children
An hour before last Tuesday’s accidental shooting at Gardena High School, the campus radiated calm…
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Heretics, humanism, and the hood
As a radical humanist critic of America’s Christian slavocracy, Frederick Douglass once wrote, “I prayed…