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Dr. Sonja Cherry-Paul
@SonjaCherryPaul
Antiracist Educator. Scholar. Author. Founder @RedClayEd she/her. Tweets are my own. "Such as I am, I am a precious gift." - Zora Neale Hurston
Jan 9, 2022 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
Dear Educators,

Dr. King Day is coming up. I’m reaching out to help support your plans for acknowledging Dr. King’s life and work. 1/13 I hope that despite all of the resistance, you will be truth-tellers, as so many educators before us have been, particularly Black women. Because if we’ve learned anything from Dr. King and activists from the CRM, it's that a commitment to equity is a commitment to action. 2/13
Jun 6, 2021 • 12 tweets • 6 min read
1/12 Today’s announcement from @diversebooks is part of a critical conversation about identity and representation. diversebooks.org/why-we-need-di… 2/12 #ownvoices has been a powerful movement to raise awareness about the importance of authors being able to tell their own stories. It has called for publishers to recognize this importance and to be more inclusive.
May 31, 2021 • 20 tweets • 3 min read
1/20 - Ida B. Wells-Barnett said, “The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.” How are you teaching students about the Tulsa Race Massacre and the work of remembering? 2/20 - 100-years ago a White mob destroyed the town of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma and killed as many as 300 Black residents.
Jan 17, 2021 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
1/12 - Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is upon us. So it’s time for my yearly rant to educators about the white-washing and co-opting of King’s “I Have A Dream” speech. 2/12 - Please acknowledge and teach that this speech does not begin with the words “I Have A Dream.”
Dec 28, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
1/6 Cowards swim in the sea of intentional ignorance and ingest the water willfully. They are the “anti-intellectuals’ they claim others to be. And they reveal themselves when the racist structures they build and maintain crack and crumble. 2/6 The cowardly and racist reporting by the WSJ targeting @DisruptTexts and several thoughtful educators is shameful but not surprising.
Jan 12, 2020 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
It’s THAT time of year. Dr. King’s birthday and the federal holiday celebrating him and his work is fast approaching. And here’s my annual rant. Teachers, STOP misleading students by only reading the last pages of Dr. King’s most famous speech.