The Perils of Being Black in America

Dr Faith Wambura Ngunjiri
4 min readJan 22, 2020

#walkingwhileblack caused my student juvie time and loss of football scholarship…but at least he is still alive to tell it.

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Today in class, I focused on helping my students process our MLK day activities. The theme of the day was “Not Racist” A White Moderate Myth and brought to our predominantly white (PWI) campus Ijeoma Oluo and Janaya Khan as keynote speakers.

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Dr Faith Wambura Ngunjiri

I am an educator, professor, leadership coach, mental health advocate, solo mama, of African ascent. https://wamburangunjiri.medium.com/membership