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educator, artist, writer, social entrepreneur, grown ass man. Washington, DC

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@Asheru
Asheru®
7 years
@seanhannity Old Hannity: "Obama is a Kenyan Muslim, seeking to destroy America". New Hannity: "Ive never seen a president face such criticism as Trump."
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@Lataine16 @reid_bl @seanhannity for the record--ANYTIME Obama entered the room to represent the US, he OWNED it. Trump? He just tries to buy it. Not the same thing, is it?
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@Asheru
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7 years
@45HeavenSent @Lataine16 @reid_bl @seanhannity Here's your clueless president missing his car that was placed directly at the bottom of the steps of Air Force One. #covfefebitches
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@Lataine16 @reid_bl @seanhannity Yeah I guess if you consider having Ivanka sit in on maybe the MOST IMPORTANT MEETING OF GLOBAL LEADERS TODAY. "Stand up for America"? Ok
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7 years
@reid_bl @seanhannity Are you a Trump supporter? How's he doing so far, in your opinion?
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7 years
@seanhannity Old Hannity: "Obama's travel abuses the budget & runs up our debt". New Hannity: Trump deserves to golf every weekend, He's the president!"
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4 years
@StrangeFactoid It was In Angola actually, which is in Southern Africa, but not South Africa
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4 years
@jbillinson Get your screenshots ready cuz there will be a class action lawsuit when the dust settles. #robinhood
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7 years
@ImJustCeej @DrJamesPeterson "She should have just complied with the officer and did what he told her to do and maybe she would still be alive..." Sounds cold don't it??
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@Asheru
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4 years
@icecube Don’t worry about it. The same critics forgave Biden for his mass incarceration crimes against our community, forgave Kamala locking up the families of truant kids, forgave Hillary calling us “super-predators”...they’ll forget and forgive you too one day.
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@Asheru
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4 years
I’m all for #blackoutday but y’all are blacking out the wrong things... Why mute YOURSELF? Social media is helping individuals and independent media to mobilize, share info and to tell the actual story. Let’s have a #blackoutday on CNN, MSNBC and FOXNEWS instead!!
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8 years
@274KATE @PortiaFOX5 @FOX5Atlanta @5 right!!! Like, if thats not you, then who the hell is it??
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@Asheru
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6 years
@jaydavis101 I heard @daylyt30 talk about how he went to middle school with #NipseyHussle & how his mind was always sharper than the rest. He would do the morning announcements for the school and was looked at as a leader even back then... We have Ermias' in our classrooms everyday #HipHopEd
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@Asheru
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7 years
@seanhannity No. Only your credibility.
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8 years
'What Do We Have To Lose?' Trump asks Black people. Here's an answer: @ThePhiStone + @bigbowlofideas #Election2016
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@Asheru
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6 years
I empathize with young people that have to endure the oppressive nature of schools with poor culture and climate. I equate it to driving while Black, with cop cars in your rear view--They aren't being taught, nurtured, & supported, they are being watched, & "managed". #HipHopEd
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@Asheru
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4 years
Day 103, still no #JusticeForBreonnaTaylor Kentucky, I really hope y’all got Mitch outta there.
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@Asheru
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4 years
@Rickie99_ @jbillinson Prime example of Big Bank take Lil Bank. What the #robinhood app is doing is unethical as well as ILLEGAL.
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@Asheru
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7 years
I think it's pretty obvious why cops aren't stepping in. If this was Ferguson or Bmore they would have brought out the National Guard by now
@letsgomathias
Christopher Mathias
7 years
Cops need to step in. This is getting out of control. #Charlottesville
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@Asheru
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1 year
And believe it or not, some people STILL don’t get who/what I was talking about…. 🙏🏾💎
@NikkyWalks
Nik Walker
1 year
"i am the stone that the builder refused I am the visual, the inspiration That made lady sing the blues..." - @Asheru #Juneteenth2023
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4 years
@RealCandaceO “Proud Boys- stand back and stand by...”. Is that a suitable denouncement of white supremacy in your opinion?
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7 years
@seanhannity I just want your smug, Richie Cunningham-looking ass to know that WE SEE YOU. And you WILL NOT win.
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8 years
Damn where did you go to school???
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7 years
@MaxKennerly @TheRickWilson @sacca I think one possible reason is to overturn the states' rights to regulate their own marijuana laws through federal seizure of property.
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8 years
@BetsyDeVos you won't last two years. #FACTS
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@Asheru
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5 years
To me, teaching Social studies would need to include current events and popular culture — as a springboard for discussion and for making contextual and historical connections to past events, people and eras. #HipHopEd
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@Asheru
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2 years
@EBROINTHEAM In my opinion, the substitute “teacher” was dead wrong and this situation was avoidable had the adult been able to exercise restraint and emotional maturity. But she isn’t a teacher, she’s a babysitter— which is why she called for a teacher to intervene at the end.
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@Asheru
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3 years
🙏🏾. 20 years. 💪🏾.
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3 years
Speaking of hiphop. Tomorrow marks the 20 year anniversary of one of hiphop's masterpieces! And IMO @Asheru still doesn't get his credit as the great MC that he is! ..... @realjlive & @HEVnamedMeGRAP needs their flowers as well. #Timelessclassic #Sevenheads
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6 years
My new article in @ELmagazine on the importance of rapport and relationship building with students. #HipHopEd
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4 years
@djhazeee This is bad. And the same thing is happening in Chicago right now. We gotta wake up, we’re being played. Our pain and anger toward police brutality and white supremacy Is now directed at each other. . #Dyckman
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7 years
@ClintSmithIII ...Shit, add taxes to the list too
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7 years
@GovMikeHuckabee @SarahHuckabee @POTUS Honest tho? C'mon.... I tune in at least 3 times a week to see what lies you stand at the podium and come up with next
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6 years
@TumiMolekane got goosebumps off that @RealSway interview and verse bro. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
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5 years
@MsVega218 Super Important. I watched my daughter sit thru four class periods online today, bored out of her mind —with her teachers just blabbering on and on, not once mentioning what’s going on or asking how they as students are coping/adjusting to this new reality. #HipHopEd
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7 years
@KellyannePolls @POTUS The irony of you being caught in lies daily in the media-- while simultaneously accusing the media of lying. #alternativelies
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6 years
Brand new art being used to transform and reclaim old spaces. At the Malcolm X Opportunity Center #MXOC in Southeast, DC, 2018 #GuerillaArts #HipHopEd @GuerillaArts
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@Asheru
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7 years
@SenJohnMcCain I question your fitness to serve, Sir. What are you doing?
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@Asheru
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4 years
Last thing I wanna say, is virtual is voluntary, some students may want to be off camera or muted depending on the day (just like we do as adults), be thankful that they showed up to class and find ways to engage them even when you can’t see them. #Patience #Grace #HipHopEd
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7 years
@HBOPR @HBO @GameOfThrones A Terrible show premise. Somebody is sleeping at the wheel. Get some diversity in those planning meetings to avoid bad choices like this.
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@Asheru
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4 years
@RobinhoodApp Nah. Fix it by market open - or we out.
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2 years
@EBROINTHEAM And another thing, adults seem to think that these students aren’t real people with real feelings and boundaries… as an adult, let a stranger walk up and take your personal property then refuse to give it back — see what you do.
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5 years
@unsuckdcmetro Wait. Can you define "behaving badly"? Seems pretty subjective. And who are you that we should care?
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6 years
Having the capacity to love should be a prerequisite to teaching. Without it, you're just practicing on people's children #HipHopEd
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7 years
@chrisemdin This whole speech is coded language for his supporters. Decoding terms like “The American family” and “The War On...” would be a worthwhile HIstory/ELA activity in critical thinking
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4 years
Part of being the one in charge is being able to take the fame or the blame. The accolades and the flying shoe.
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7 years
Include critical media literacy on racial/cultural representations ie: "thugs" vs. "protestors"...Or "Riots" vs. "Demonstrations" #HipHopEd
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@drboycewatkins1 DMX son probably still regrets not taking that hug. Iyanla read that monent way wrong
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7 years
@ambron13 @ImJustCeej @DrJamesPeterson Key words being "if" and "true"...
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@Asheru
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9 years
Michelle Alexander Breaks Down Why Hillary Clinton is Bad for Black America
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@Asheru
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1 year
About the other night… at our Fundraiser for the new makerspace we built with/for students with disabilities. Donation link is in my bio… #GiveThanx #makers #specialeducation #specialteachers cc: @GuerillaArts @schooltalk_inc
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@Asheru
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8 years
Early in my career I was told by other teachers: "don't smile till Christmas". That never worked for me. #hiphoped
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6 years
(Visual) art can express ideas that words can't. It is an underestimated form of communication that can't be dismissed, erased, or overlooked #HipHopEd
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6 years
@Dart_Adams There is a new breed of Culture vulture among us...
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I just decoded “I am the stone that the builder refused” from “The Boondocks Theme Song” @RapGenius http://t.co/KyIpopA3ep
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8 years
When we call Hip Hop an "African American artform", we must include our Latino family, many of whom are indigenous to this land. #HipHopEd
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6 years
Keeping in line with the topic, I would like to offer up my recent article in @ELmagazine on the importance of Rapport and building engaging teacher -student relationships: please feel free to share #HipHopEd
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@Asheru
Asheru®
7 years
I'm neither liberal, conservative, Dem nor Rep. I'm independent in thought & vote and use common sense-which I guess ain't all that common.
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7 years
Also include terms like cognitive dissonance, false equivalence and some of the other rhetorical devices being used in media. #HipHopEd
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4 years
This is dope! Salute! 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
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6 years
Here is the link to my full article in the September issue of ASCD Educational Leadership magazine. On rapport and...
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7 years
@WhitlockJason I bet you're more disappointed than shocked...
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8 years
Once my Costa Rican family taught me that there is only one America, and no North, Central & South, it changed EVERYTHING #HipHopEd #native
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4 years
Original artwork by @Aniekanreloaded for one of the Blackest albums you ever slept on. #SleeplessinSoweto #202Creates
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4 years
@OhTimehin I think it’s more of a societal and cultural rites of passage, symbolic of another step closer to graduating into adulthood.
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6 years
I even heard the Breakfast Club ask the question "keep it real or keep it alive?" Suggesting that it might be better to just leave the hood behind once you "make it" so to speak...that type of thinking is dangerous and the question is really a false dichotomy. #HipHopEd
@KingAdjapong
Edmund Adjapong Ph.D.
6 years
After the loss of Nipsey, I've heard young people talk about not coming back to their hood because that's where Nipsey lost his life. The difference is that a sucka took Nipsey away from us. and unfortunately there are suckas everywhere and we have to remain vigilant. #HipHopEd
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@Asheru
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4 years
Excited to be a part of this event for DCPS youth tomorrow with @JasonReynolds83 @MsPackyetti and others! Register your young person today! @GuerillaArts
@dcpublicschools
DC Public Schools
4 years
Attention DCPS 6-12 grade students of color! Join us online at the EMOC and Reign student conference, Virtual Vibes: Surviving to Thriving on Saturday, September 26. Register at by September 21 to receive free conference swag.
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@WellsFargoNews @mikesantos731 Happy to finally be leaving this bank.
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7 years
@seanhannity "Obama -'global apology tour' gaining support from world leaders...BAD. Trump -first G20, looks/acts confused, embarrassed self & US...GOOD"
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@Asheru
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5 years
New article: “Seven Ways to Make High School “Suck” Less” in the new March 2020 issue of @ASCD Educational Leadership Magazine. Read. Share. Enjoy!!! #FindingyourRHYTHM
@ASCD
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Find out how high schools can empower student agency at this critical time in teens’ lives here: @Asheru
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4 years
What does it even mean to be impeached? How can it happen a second time? That’s like being fired from the same job twice.
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11 years
Kanye crying for acceptance from the fashion world is not Hip Hop. Nor is putting MLK on a party flyer. Movements need clarity. #hiphoped
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8 years
@mattlockeshow only one of those statements is illegal. The other two are objective, & not illegal. #Sessions ass is grass, own it.
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4 years
Clubhouse is a study on communication style and techniques. I want to make a room titled, “I heard you TWICE the first time...”
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2 years
Hyattsville, MD- stand up! Great match @FTiafoe
@Salonemessenger
Salone Messenger
2 years
Son of Sierra Leonean immigrants Frances Tiafoe have defeated Rafael Nadal in the tennis grand slam. This is the fist loss for Nadal this 2022. Tiafoe is considered by many as the next big thing in the world of Tennis and he is living up to this expectation.. #tiafoe
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As schools are rolling out their emergency distance learning Protocols, we need them to engage in dialogue more...Talk about Covid, and its effects, how they are feeling, and the current uncertainty. It can’t just be “business as usual, but online...” #HipHopEd
@chrisemdin
Christopher Emdin
5 years
1) Cogenerative dialogues. You cant just start teaching. Begin with a conversation with your children about what they want to learn and how they want to learn it. Imposing a random curriculum does not work #HipHopEd
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4 years
Good morning!
@ASCD
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4 years
Gabriel Benn ( @Asheru ) sees himself as an accountability partner to his students. In this video, listen to Benn speak about the importance of storytelling and representation: #ASCDBlackVoices
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8 years
#HipHopEd hip hop music is the campfire we sit around to try to figure ourselves and the world out. We don't just listen to it, we absorb it
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6 years
I've been married to an Eritrean woman for almost 20 years. We have four children- four Eritrean-American kids growing up in NE DC. In this context, @NipseyHussle represented so much, His passing is hard to deal with. I see how it is affecting me and my oldest sun specifically
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4 years
Bamma stole an election with foreign assistance, got impeached but not removed, broke and/or reversed every law that came before him, offended damn ear every racial and religious demographic, and is a habitual line stepper. This is it. This is the end. Good fucking riddance. ✌🏾
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5 years
I think it’s always good to appeal to the natural competitiveness of our youth when engaging them. #HipHopEd
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9 years
Hip hop opened the door to my awareness. It woke me up out of my slumber and made me realize my place in the world. #HipHopEd
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4 years
HS Students: So after enduring neighborhood beefs, school bullies, TSA-type searches and medal detectors upon entry, horrible food options and micro aggressive behaviors from adults — you mean to tell me I coulda done school this whole time from a laptop??
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5 years
#TheBattle or competition can be used in multiple ways: classroom games for info recall, assigning Teams/houses within grade levels, PBIS strategy, schoolwide attendance goals, School pride and athletics, and more. #HipHopEd
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2 years
the Story of Kanye…The Story of OJ
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6 years
I've had a #MuteRKelly policy in my house for years now - I have four children. And I will gladly join the movement and say it again publicly today as I felt back then. Ain't no forgiveness, bih
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3 years
So thankful that the students I’ve taught over the years are adults now and still keep in touch.
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3 years
“Fortune favors the bold.” I love that quote. 💪🏾
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4 years
I would encourage teachers to engage students thru virtual restorative circles and teambuilding exercises in the breakout rooms. Remember, some are meeting each other for the first time too! #HipHopEd
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4 years
Salute to @Kamilahf for her pioneering work in Hip Hop Theatre, and For continuing to go above and beyond for the culture. #HipHopEd
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@shannboogie
Dawn Chambers’ Anger Translator
5 years
Really can’t entertain a new The Boondocks convo unless I know it includes this guys right here. The world needs a Judo Flip! Also, hi friend!!
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5 years
Time is revealing that our students are “learning how to fish” for themselves now. Some paths to knowledge don’t need no middleman... #HipHopEd
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6 years
Sometimes "Family" is bestowed upon us. Not of blood and bone, but of spirit. This is how I will remember you my brother, in your natural element. Jabulani, aka- A King from Mafikeng 👑 @…
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4 years
My teenagers still say “I love you” before we hang up the phone. I hope they never outgrow that. #givethanx
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4 years
Creating COVID-conscious learning spaces around my city to support engagement, collaboration, and student-curated learning. Sometimes the adults need to GET OUT THE WAY and let the youth lead this next phase! #HipHopEd #GoodTroubleEdu
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4 years
Lost both my mama and Nipsey on this day. 8 years ago and 2 years ago respectively. 3/31. #RIP
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6 years
@Wait_What_How @ABCNetwork The fashion industry is dominated by white designers. Has been since the beginning. Do you have a problem with that too?
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@chelz70 @jadarenee What a funny word choice... Oh he was tribal alright, just with the wrong tribe.
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