My name is Felmara Greene, I am a rising senior at Blackstone Valley Prep High School. Although before anything, I am an African American, and the ongoing issues in this country have been troubling me deeply. Therefore, I am writing this letter [...]

This is essay was recognized as the winning essay submission for BVP’s 1st Martin Luther King, Jr. Essay Contest. This essay is posted here with permission of the author. By Chelsea Acheampong Blackstone Valley Prep High School, 12th Grade [...]

My name is Colleen Colarusso. I am an educator, daughter, sister, aunt, friend, the Chief Schools Officer at Blackstone Valley Prep, and I am white. I grew up in a not-quite-suburban-not-quite-rural town in Massachusetts. After I graduated [...]

“Your voice is powerful, and your education is powerful, because your mind is powerful…” “I feel you. I hear you. And in so many ways, with all that is going on, I get it, and I am you.” – Andrea Blair, BVPHS [...]

Like many of you, we are closely following the George Floyd story and the Central Park story and Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor…and seemingly countless other examples of racism in our country. While NYC or Minneapolis,Georgia or Kentucky [...]

“While we may be physically apart, our connections are stronger than ever. I always tell my students that in life you have to relentlessly go after the things that you want; you have to work for it. I feel the same way about education. I [...]