One Year Later, how is ‘The Work’ of Educational Anti-Racism?

I use the phrase “the work” a lot. I picked it up in educational equity circles where it is used with sweeping gestures to refer to all that is undone.

My poetry professor and mentor and the scariest and most wonderful human I’ve ever known, Michael Dennis Brown, often quoted Ingmar Bergman, “I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must…