One of my latest articles is now out in print. Be sure to check it out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Laboring in the Shadows by Bianca J. Baldridge explores the critical role of Black youth workers, especially in the lives of vulnerable youth, and the challenges they face in their unstable, underappreciated position. https://ow.ly/SoHZ50YgWmg

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

We still don't know the names of the ICE agents who killed Gonzàlez behind the wheel of his car outside Chicago in September. They were unmasked in this BWC footage from Franklin Park police. If you have any information at all about these men—please text us on Signal at unraveled.66

New pub alert! I had the pleasure of writing alongside the great Dana Nickson. Super excited we got to collaborate and write about suburban placemaking! Check out our article here: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/PTNTR...

New op-ed in the LA Times by myself & Dave Stovall. We wrote this because are watching in horror the ways this administration is terrorizing Children of Color. Black & Brown children deserve better than this. We all deserve better than this. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Thank you to @blockclubchi.bsky.social for republishing @almacampos.bsky.social's moving reporting on the final journey of Silverio Villegas González, who was killed by federal agents last month in Franklin Park. blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/20/a...

The 13th largest military in the world is occupying and waging war on the people of Chicago. “I think talking about this as an occupation is useful because it is so outrageous and abnormal,” says Jackson Potter, vice president of @ctulocal1.bsky.social.

Across Chicago and the suburbs, relatives, friends and even strangers are shopping and caring for isolated immigrants as reports of immigration arrests intensify. Story w/ @medicenambi.bsky.social and @araceligomezaldana.bsky.social www.wbez.org/immigration/... @wbez.org @chicago.suntimes.com

New pub alert! During my time in Iowa, it was a pleasure to learn from youth who battled and wrestled with how to bring a more equitable and just school. Check out the article via the link below: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

In today's @chicago.suntimes.com we tell the story of a 16-year-old Palestinian teen who has spent his summer in the Chicago area learning how to walk again. But he's likely one of the last children from Gaza to be allowed into the U.S. for medical treatment: chicago.suntimes.com/health/2025/...

Last night, about 60 Chicago activists and organizers gathered to discuss Trump's threatened military occupation of our city. Our convo centered around a worksheet that some friends and I put together this week—a tool that can help us build and strengthen local networks of support and protection.

Indiana officials confirmed 1,200 empty beds at a rural prison are now available for the federal government to house detained immigrants. trib.al/CwzBdm0

This is a really interesting look at how a PAC is targeting residents (many who are probably Latino) in wards led by progressive Latino alders. I've been getting texts in Spanish from this PAC in recent days about the grocery tax. thetriibe.com/2025/06/whos...

“In the last school year, schools opened with an estimated 55,000 teaching vacancies … States like Utah, Nevada, Alabama, Louisiana, and Florida were the hardest hit, with Arizona leading at less than 44 teachers per 1,000 students.” https://trib.al/yB1Ajuc

Grad students or recent grads doing ed policy work should consider applying for this great opportunity!

Senator Padilla’s office sends me this video of his take-down and detention at Sec. Noem’s press conference in L.A.

Two Saturdays ago, a high school teacher and I got 11 high school students together with 9 preservice teachers and had a big conversation about school and teaching and learning. Then, we drafted a collective op-ed. It was published this morning! www.news-gazette.com/opinion/gues...

I’m excited to share a new publication that was released online today and will be part of the History of Education Quarterly’s forthcoming print issue! #HistEd #EduSky

New op-ed in the Chicago Sun Times “When someone accepts bureaucratic terms for human displacement, they become desensitized, seeing figures instead of faces, cases instead of lives being upended.” chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/...

They are arresting people on the streets, terminating their visas, and disappearing them for writing things they disagree with. This is where we are. Two months in. Right now. If you think they won’t begin coming after citizens soon, you are mistaken.

A mob of Israeli settlers has attacked Palestinian filmmaker and activist Hamdan Ballal just three weeks after he won an Oscar. Israeli soldiers then blocked the ambulance transporting Ballal after the attack and detained him. His current condition and location is unknown.

Once held up by Dems as a beacon of progressive governance, the Health Benefits for Immigrant Adults program has been put on the chopping block. And many who have come to depend on the healthcare coverage aren't sure what they'll do: chicago.suntimes.com/politics/202... w/ @mitchtrout.bsky.social

It seems like when you write a decision giving the President king-like powers, you shouldn't be indignant when he acts like a king.

“Is that what it means to be a criminal — to wake up early and go to work and look after your family?” Suburban Chicago family pleads for ICE to release father, local business owner chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

hey teachers working for social justice, check out this rad writing fellowship supported by $5K/year! www.edsurge.com/research/gui...

Not good at all

Illinois schools chief tells districts to follow state law, not Trump threats https://www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2025/02/21/illinois-schools-chief-says-keep-teaching-black-history-after-trump-letter/

Here’s the second op-ed!. www.newsweek.com/its-2025say-... “…today's rhetoric proposes that a substandard education is a small cost for maintaining racism, homophobia, trans violence, and antiblackness.”

Here, I explain how the February 14 "Dear Colleague" letter is a widely expansive distortion of the court’s ruling in SFFA. Institutional responses should remain focused on areas that the Supreme Court addressed and not expand to those clearly outside its purview. www.chronicle.com/article/hitt...

EPOL assistant professor Gabriel Rodriguez recently published his article in the International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education. It is titled "Enacting Thick Solidarity Through Convivencia: Examining Relationships and Accountability in Research with Youth of Color." More:

When the feds arrived, a 26-yr-old started recording. They were searching for a relative. But instead arrested his dad who was just arriving from buying tamales. "I can't breathe. I got asthma. Call a lawyer," he heard his dad say chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/... w/ @adrianacardmag.bsky.social

With Trump deportation raids expected to start in Chicago, advocates say they will safeguard immigrants chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

New pub alert www.tandfonline.com/eprint/3TSGS...

NEW: From 2018 through 2022, Palatine, Illinois, police ticketed students nearly 400 times. Black and Latino students sometimes received tickets when white students were given lesser punishments or offered help to cope with substance use, the probe found.

NYU Faculty First Look applications are out and due December 31, 2024! Happy to answer any questions about the program! Those who are eligible and interested in becoming faculty should really consider applying!! #NYUFFLalum steinhardt.nyu.edu/office-diver...

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