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Brooke Harris says she was fired for teaching her students about Trayvon Martin. Tell the Pontiac Academy for Excellence to re-hire Brooke.
Brooke Harris loved her job teaching eighth grade at an inner-city charter school in Michigan -- but Brooke says she was fired for teaching her kids about Trayvon Martin, an African-American teen who was recently shot and killed because someone thought he looked suspicious. Brooke's kids had heard about Trayvon, and she saw they wanted to know more in part because they identified with him: "They are young, black and brown kids who walk to the corner store after school every day," Brooke says. "They've been stopped by police because they 'looked like' some kids who did something illegal." Many of Brooke's students wanted to go beyond writing essays and classroom discussions -- they wanted to raise money for Trayvon's family. For helping the kids plan the fundraiser, Brooke says that she was suspended and eventually fired, and that she was told, "you're a teacher, not an activist." Now there's a petition on Change.org d...
Dashaun “Jiwe” Morris: The Blood Author Writes For Change
"Jiwe, by his own admission, is a work in progress as well. His evolution has been chronicled in the acclaimed documentary, “Brick City,” a reality-based documentary that peels back the different layers of Newark, New Jersey. Jiwe is also working as a budding actor in a play (onehour2live.net) in which a gang banger faces his last day alive. AllHipHop.com caught up with the man once known in the streets as Machete and realized that he’s the change that was so promoted a year ago by a presidential aspirant. AllHipHop.com: What made you decide to write your book, “War of the Bloods In My Veins?” Jiwe: A combination of things. The death of a good homie of mines in Lil City E.O., then the birth of my daughter Dashana. Mind you I was in jail fighting 1st degree attempted murder charges. I was locked down in the hole for 23 hours a day. So that is the place where I began digging deep within, searching for answers no one had but God. I became furious, angry, miserable, sad, l...