It's about more than just celebrating his legacy, it's about being able to shape our community, and having the agency to carve out spaces that feel safe, inclusive, and inspiring.
My prayer is that we keep our dreams of a post-racial society, but never forget where we have come from and where we will end up if we solely rely on the judicial system and conversations to shape our community.
Be it understanding climate change, how international migration is shaping our communities or using fieldwork to investigate local environmental quality, good geography lessons provide a context for pupils to bring together skills, understanding and knowledge.
Here are three hopeful examples that pertain to issues shaping our communities.
Around the world, mothers are the center of households and key to shaping our communities, our economies, and our nations.
"I think our communities of color are beginning to untangle the compulsory heteronormativity that has shaped our communities," Henderson-Espinoza told HuffPost by email. .
As we celebrate BPM 2013, it is time to push black philanthropy to another level appropriate for the global society that has always shaped our communities.
On my reservation, no schoolchild is asked to read the treaties that shaped our community or required to know about the branches of tribal government or the role of courts and councils.
So in light of the horrific death of this young man, this child, this baby whose life will never be developed to a full man, I want to find some amazing black boys who are shaping our community.
However, our surroundings, including individuals with whom we interact, also likely shape our microbial communities.
