Donna FordOpinionIf We Could Administer a Lie Detector Test or Truth Serum to Educators Working With Black StudentsThe new school year is upon us. With it comes our individual and collective hopes and concerns about the quality of life in schools for Black students.August 8, 2023OpinionWe are Not an ‘Issue’: We are Your Students of Color!!As minoritized individuals and scholars, we must set the record straight on several real ‘issues/problems’ confronting students of color.February 7, 2023Opinion"We Know More Than What Those Damn Tests Claim to Measure”: How Tests are Inequitable for Black and Other Minoritized StudentsThere is nothing ‘wrong’ with Black and other disenfranchised minoritized students who score lower on tests than white students. There’s something wrong with the tests!November 16, 2022OpinionLift Every Voice and Succeed: The Need for More Black School CounselorsBlack students have been impacted socially, academically, emotionally, and mentally by the previously mentioned issues, thus impeding their success and overall well-being.October 6, 2022OpinionSchool 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, 2021Page 1 of 3Next Page