Francesca Block

Author Archive

  • Oct 24, 2024
    A prominent trade publication refused to advertise a new book because it feared the word Israel in its title might upset its audience, The Free Press has...
  • Sep 20, 2024
    Four years ago, Brittany Jean was a special education teacher at a Miami charter school, trying to manage 100 students who all had learning needs she didn’t have the time or...
  • Jul 29, 2024
    Shilese Jones swung on the uneven bars at the U.S. Olympic Gymnastics Trials a month ago with mesmerizing grace. Her arms extended, her toes pointed, her expression one of total...
  • May 31, 2024
    Shilo Brooks is on a mission to teach Ivy League students how to read. If the trend in academic life for the past few decades has been to skim hundreds of pages per day and then pick...
  • Feb 23, 2024
    Children at a Brooklyn public elementary school are being taught revolutionary politics and communist terms from a Black Lives Matter coloring book, The Free Press has...
  • Jan 15, 2024
    In the 1960s, when Clarence Jones was writing speeches for Martin Luther King Jr., he used to joke with the civil rights leader: “You don’t deserve me,...