This Ground on Which We Stand

Many years ago, I began my career as a young teacher in the state of Mississippi, daring to dream of educational reform and social justice for people beleaguered by a host of poverties, as I once had been. There, at a conference on the Southern Civil Rights movement, a larger-than-life veteran of that era stood one day to address a group of us, like-minded educators. With a sense of urgency and passion I’ll never forget, his voice quivered as he leaned in, scanning the room and searching our eyes…Read More