Growing up in New Orleans, I was always the only black kid, or one of two, on the school soccer team. While I was always conscious of this status, what took precedent was my unfettered love of the game.

Supporting black professional athletes was taken seriously in my home.

Being incarcerated does not mean being devoid of the capacity to learn, grow, and think, and it's critical that prisons provide spaces where learning can be both cultivated and encouraged.

Schools are the single largest lever of mobility in this country. When we commit to creating and enforcing laws that acknowledge the injustice of the past, we open up the possibility of using schools as a means of reducing inequality.

Education is the foundation upon which we build our future.

A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher.

Federal government has forced a one-size-fits-all model on our education system.

What do lawyers learn in law school? They learn to win... What we've got to start thinking about is how do we solve problems.