Donna FordOpinionSchool Counseling Joins the List of Targeted Professions, Leaving Students Even More VulnerableDue to lingering COVID-19 global pandemic effects, critical school counseling services are needed more than ever, as well as the meaningful collaborations they establish with teachers to support students.April 6, 2022OpinionBlack Professors and a Student-Ally Discuss Teaching and Learning About Anti-Racist, Equitable, Culturally Responsive Education and EducatorsWe share our insights relative to collaborating as advocates and allies working on the mutual goal of being and developing anti-racist, equity-oriented, and culturally responsive educators from all racial and ethnic backgrounds.March 14, 2022OpinionIntroducing ‘Ebony Cinematherapy’: Black Students Deserve and Need Culturally Responsive School Counselors to Cope with Racialized TraumaLiving through a dual pandemic, COVID-19 and racism, Black children are experiencing traumatic events that profoundly impact their academic, physical, socio-emotional, psychological, and mental health - their overall well-being.February 9, 2022OpinionAffirming Black Boys’ IdentityAs Black educators dedicated to closing racial achievement gaps and preventing low achievement and underachievement, we are quite familiar with the power of literature, especially representation in multicultural literature.January 24, 2022OpinionTime Will Tell: Three Black Scholars Ponder APA’s Apology for Silence and Complicity in Perpetuating RacismAs Black scholars and leaders in psychology, counseling and education, we strive to expose and mitigate barriers that regularly inhibit educational progress and outcomes for Black and other vulnerable groups.December 9, 2021OpinionCulture Must Be Up Front and Center – Not an Afterthought -- in Counseling Black and Other Minoritized ClientsWe continue to be flabbergasted, dismayed, and upset about the persistent and pervasive under-representation of Black and other minoritized professionals in counseling, psychological, and mental health professions.November 21, 2021OpinionSmoke and Mirrors: Challenging the Elimination of Gifted and Talented Education Under the Guise of Universal Access for All ChildrenWhen educators fail to comprehend the perspectives, experiences, and realities of Black and Brown children, they, in effect render them invisible — ignoring and devaluing their gifts and talents, and untapped potential.October 12, 2021OpinionWhen the ‘Gates’ are Literally and Figuratively Closed to Gifted and Talented Education for Black StudentsSince its inception, the field of gifted and talented education (GATE) has been steeped in controversy and inequities due to the initial and ongoing underrepresentation of Black students, followed by Hispanic students.October 11, 2021African-AmericanMiseducating Black Students as a Form of Educational Malpractice and Professional BetrayalProfessional malpractice in education is a reality and it must be interrogated. Our field is not exempt from accountability; what we do can truly save lives.September 14, 2020African-AmericanOur Children are Watching: Teachers, What are Your Non-Verbal Messages Saying to Our Black Students?Due to racial injustices – profiling in society and in schools – Black caregivers are obligated to train our children to be hyper-observant of their surroundings, and strangers and foes when driving, walking, playing, shopping, dining… in all situations. The COVID-19 pandemic has been a physical reprieve from deficit thinking and alienation in a brick-and-mortar setting, but not visually during online teaching where visuals dominate.June 21, 2020Previous PagePage 2 of 3Next Page