"My wife and I were out doing a kayak trip on the [Los Angeles River] ... It’s a wilder place than you would think fro…"

"The original Huck Finn is not about slavery; it’s not about race. This is a story about an abused kid looking for a s…"

"Huck undergoes a change in Twain’s original in terms of how he sees the slave Jim, and Huck undergoes a similar chang…"

"I started thinking of Huck Finn as a protoypical American myth."

"I want to draw a direct line from the racially discriminatory housing practices of the middle decades of the twentiet…"

"By carving up our cities into attendance zones, we are perpetuating the economic and racial divisions that marked one…"

"Almost 80 percent of public school children attend their assigned public school. If American public schools are divid…"

"What is this peculiar, misshapen thing that we call an attendance zone? It’s an administrative service area. Governme…"

"The harder you look at attendance zones, the more they appear to violate fundamental principles. Isn’t public educati…"

"It was an incredibly fun experience to try an inhabit that voice and try to get into Huck’s head and see Los Angeles …"