Education Learning in a World We Didn’t Make: James Peterson on Nikole Hannah-Jones’s School Experience By Dr. James Peterson Nikole Hannah-Jones’s recent New York Times Magazine essay about the life-altering decisions Black parents make in educating our children is, for me, even more powerful than The 1619 Project. The 2019 landmark long-form journalism project was a definitive historical intervention, centering the experiences of enslaved Africans […] todayOctober 2, 2026
Commentary Dr. James Peterson: The messiness of America’s drained-pool politics Perhaps Washington's Reflecting Pool should stay exactly as it is. Its mess reflects ours. By Dr. James Peterson The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has become an unironic reflection of the current administration. The Reflecting Pool is supposed to center the architecture of American democracy – the Washington Monument, the Lincoln […] todayAugust 27, 2026
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