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By the time I became a teacher in my mid-20s, I started to struggle with “sounding too Black” and coming across as “too Black,” which in my mind was connected with not being professional, “the White way.”

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The first time I really embrace my Blackness When I was in high school, I was often made fun of because of my hair or how I talked and I would be mixed up with other Black girls; White people thought that we all looked the same. By the time I became a teacher in my mid-20s, I started to struggle with coming across as “too Black,” which in ...

Europeans used pseudoscientific methods to create racial hierarchies that would justify three things: slavery, colonialism, and the conquest of people they defined as inferior.

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Dismantling the biological myth of race It is hard to deny the impact race and racism has on the lives of Black people. The process of unpacking this impact and healing from its trauma requires us to first unlearn some of what we have been taught about race. We are raised to believe that physical differences we see among groups of people....