A couple of years ago Ellysa shared this article with JBS. The article came up again at an Abolitionist Teaching Network workshop this summer. The workshop facilitator asked that participants identify the anti-black attitudes that lead to white supremacy and how they manifest in schools. This sheet has some of the responses.

I didn't plug into the planning week, did a racial justice committee get going? 

2) identifying how trauma may resonate in the bodies of our students

3) and working on Healing Centered strategies. 

- the state of the organizing from Salk Middle School and District 2 school that is trying to desegregate their school

- the state of culturally sustaining and relevant pedagogy at JBS

The implications are profound. If our experiences can have consequences that reverberate to our children or our children's children, that's a powerful argument against everything from smoking to immigration policies that split families. "This is really scary stuff. If what your grandmother and grandfather were exposed to is going to change your disease risk, the things we're doing today that we thought were erased are affecting our great-great-grandchildren," says Michael Skinner, a biologist at Washington State University in Pullman.

Here is a collection of Skinner's articles from most recent to oldest.

AN INTRODUCTION: To a moment in Black history exemplified by the art, literature or artifact featured for the day.

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS: To guide conversations with your family, friends, classroom, or colleagues

ACTION ITEMS: To dismantle anti-Blackness in your community