On March 1st, The Huffington Post released an interview with Fordham Press author, Pamela Lewis, whose new book, Teaching While Black: A New Voice on Race and Education in New York City, comes out this month. The Huffington Post describes Lewis as not like most of your fellow teachers. Why is that? It is because "Lewis is black. She's from the North Bronx and grew up in housing projects. She attended schools in which it was not a given that students would go on to colleges and careers." It is due to these factors that Lewis writes about making an effort to focus special attention on minority students because they are up against different odds than the other students.