As a public school teacher for twelve years, I began to notice differences in my classroom dynamics when I had more boys than girls. As a mother of a six-year-old son, I am noticing certain behaviors and attributes distinct from what I remember of my childhood growing up with a younger sister. After spending four years working in a public library and five years teaching kindergarten, I tend to want […]
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Larry Carter | The Revolution of 1964
Many people equate the word “revolution” with violence when it simply means, as the American Heritage Dictionary says, “activities directed to bringing about social change.” I like to say that revolutions begin the minute someone decides to stand up and speak out. This is what plants the seeds of change in the minds of the people. Thus, the seeds of change were planted in the poetry of Phyllis Wheatley, the […]
Larry Carter | An empowering moment
The year was 1968 and all eyes were on the summer Olympics. I was on an extended summer vacation due to the teachers’ strike in New York City. Being me, I was not too sad about the strike; in fact I rather enjoyed my extended summer break. I was a fourteen-year-old athlete and involved myself in playing a lot of football, basketball and baseball. I enjoyed the World Series games […]
Paul J. Szudzik | Moving heaven and earth
“It’s odd.” That’s all I thought when I walked out of the meeting and looked up at the fog-drenched night sky. A misshapen tree was outlined in the light of one of those cursed sodium vapor street lamps. A sepia glow backlit the eerie skeleton of a once vibrant tree, now denuded in the cool of winter; yet something was awry. Looking behind me at the stream of people leaving, […]
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