Teaching in the Time of COVID: Lessons from Black Women Educators, Part 2
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In part 2 of this episode , we continue to hear from Belinda, Lisa, and Okaikor, mk offers us Arundhati Roy's question of “What will we take in our little luggage through the portal of our current mass transition?” Belinda, Lisa and Okaikor both reflect on the conditions that allow systemic oppression to continue and share their thoughts on reimagining a more humanizing and just world.
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