Growing up middle class meant living in a space between privilege and struggle. It wasn’t wealth, but it wasn’t poverty, either—it was just enough to get by with occasional luxuries, as long as things ...
It’s a little after 11 a.m. on a Wednesday in October when Sam, an 8th grader at the Community Lab School, a small public charter school here, saunters into the office of Lucy Akers-Allen, the ...