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The Mis-Education of African American Youth By Kwame M.A. Somburu |
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Recent Incidents of Students in 'Blackface' Arise in Texas and Maryland -- Students at Texas A&M University, University of Texas at Austin, and John Hopkins University have recently participated in behavior that is degrading and offensive to students of color. EurWeb |
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African American Family Histories at Monticello "I was born at Monticello...." Peter Fossett, 1898, and Henry Martin, 1914. Over the decades, hundreds could have spoken those words. Below are profiles of a few of those born into slavery at Monticello. For more information about these people, their descendants, and members of other families with ancestral ties to Monticello Plantation Database Monticello Getting Word Monticello Classroom |
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Black History (audio) by Gil Scott-Heron / Gil Scott-Heron & His Music Reviews by Mtume ya Salaam & Kalamu ya Salaam |
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Where teachers rule—In Milwaukee, which is a national leader in the movement toward teacher-led schools, there will be at least 14 such programs next year, and that figure does not count private schools. Appleton will have two teacher-led schools next year. Minnesota, another leader in the movement, has 15 schools where the teachers are part of a workers' cooperative structured much like a law firm, so they not only make most of the decisions related to the school, but also set their own salaries. Education officials and teachers unions in California, Chicago and other places are studying the teacher-led model. "If it catches on, it could absolutely revolutionize the public system and the bureaucracy surrounding it," said Doug Thomas, executive director of EdVisions Cooperative in Minnesota. Even staunch supporters of the model concede that it is not for everyone: It requires extra time, will not work if the teachers don't familiarize themselves with the policies, procedures and politics of the district, and can be difficult to adapt to larger schools. Journal Sentinel |
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Black History Month 2008 We went into slavery a piece of property; we came out American citizens. We went into slavery pagans; we came out Christians. We went into slavery without a language; we came out speaking the proud Anglo-Saxon tongue. We went into slavery with slave chains clanking about our wrists; we came out with the American ballot in our hands. Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.—Booker Taliaferro Washington After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world, — a world which yields him no true self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world.—W. E. B. Du Bois God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.—Marcus Garvey You know my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled by the iron feet of oppression ....If we are wrong, the Supreme Court of this nation is wrong. If we are wrong, the Constitution of the United States is wrong. And if we are wrong, God Almighty is wrong. If we are wrong, Jesus of Nazareth was merely a utopian dreamer that never came down to Earth. If we are wrong, justice is a lie, love has no meaning. And we are determined here in Montgomery to work and fight until justice runs down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream.—M. L. King <-------artist Chuck Siler |
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Security Guards Beat School Teen over Cake Spill How do we explain the Upsurge of so many vicious attacks by the nation's police forces on black youth, not just boys but girls too?
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School Security Guards Beat Teen over Cake Spill: Palmdale—It all started with a piece of birthday cake, but it ended up with a high school girl being beaten and expelled. The incident, which occurred last week at Knight High School in Palmdale, was caught on a cell phone camera. Michael Brownlee was live in Palmdale with what the girl and her mother plan to do now— Clearly, Injustice is not just in Jena—Cynthia McKinney Leading the Negro into Modernity |
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We All Live in Jena--National Student Walk-Out to rally and show support for the Jena 6 National Call to Action! / Monday, October 1, 2007 / 12:00 Noon, Central Time For more info contact info@mxgm.org / To add your school to the list, email assata@pitt.edu or spjlewis@hotmail.com |
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Malcolm Shine & the Titanic Poem for Our Fathers Poem for Our Mothers By Professor ARTURO |
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Queen Africa (and other poems) Dangerous Abroad Blue Eyed Dolls in Africa Out of America or How I Became a Marxist When I was a Tennis Player |
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Alberto O. Cappas. An Educational Pledge -- A positive journey for our youth. For Schools: Teachers, Parents, & Students: "One cannot keep hope alive if no plan of action is in place" Check out our Pledge T-Shirt at www.aneducationalpledge.com / Cappas@aol.com |
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Five Poems News at Noon Argo Starch . Global News:Politics—Literature & the Arts |
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By Peter Eric Adotey Addo |
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Africans in Dublin, Ireland—Almost all the children who could not find elementary school places in a Dublin suburb this year were black, the government said Monday, highlighting Ireland's problems integrating its increasingly diverse population. The children will attend a new, all-black school, a prospect that educators called disheartening. . . .More than 25,000 Africans have settled in Ireland since the mid-1990s. Most arrived as asylum seekers, and many took advantage of Ireland's law — unique in Europe — of granting citizenship to parents of any Irish-born child. Voters toughened that law in a 2004 referendum. Shawn Pogatchnik. Black children left out of Irish schools. |
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Back to School Poems for Children By Yvonne Terry |
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Building African Libraries Project Cecil Elementary's Black History Month / Children Are Our Future / The Global African Presence |
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Seven-Year-Old Black Child Arrested, Cuffed, Fingerprinted in Baltimore, a City with a Black Mayor, Sheila Dixon “I am very concerned about what I am hearing. As a mother and as a parent, I am bothered by it,” she said. “I will get to the bottom of this.” |
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Shaquanda Cotton, 14-year-old black freshman, shoved a 58-year- old teacher’s aide at Paris High School (Texas) in a dispute over entering the building before the school day had officially begun. She was tried in March 2006 in the town’s juvenile court, convicted of “assault on a public servant” and sentenced by Judge Chuck Superville to prison for up to 7 years, until she turns 21. . . . Backward Glance -- Paris, Texas is the home of the Paris Fairgrounds, a stage where thousands of white ’spectators’ would gather to burn and lynch blacks as if at some sort of carnival. http://freeshaquandacotton.blogspot.com/ contact http://www.governor.state.tx.us/ |
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Supreme Courts Halts Racial Integration—“The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race,” he said. His side of the debate, the chief justice said, was “more faithful to the heritage of Brown,” the landmark 1954 decision that declared school segregation unconstitutional. “When it comes to using race to assign children to schools, history will be heard,” Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. . . . While Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr. joined his opinion on the schools case in full, the fifth member of the majority, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, did not. . . . Justice Kennedy said achieving racial diversity, “avoiding racial isolation” and addressing “the problem of de facto resegregation in schooling” were “compelling interests” that a school district could constitutionally pursue as long as it did so through programs that were sufficiently “narrowly tailored.” . . . “It is not often in the law that so few have so quickly changed so much,” Justice Breyer said. . . . “This is a decision that the court and the nation will come to regret.” . . . Justices John Paul Stevens, David H. Souter and Ruth Bader Ginsburg signed Justice Breyer’s opinion. Justice Stevens wrote a dissenting opinion of his own, as pointed as it was brief. Linda Greenhouse. Justices Limit the Use of Race in School Plans for Integration. NYTimes |
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Historical Fiction by Eugene Walton |
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The Moral & Spiritual Miseducation of America's Youth By Grace Lee Boggs |
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More from Grace Boggs: Crime Among Our People The Dropout Challenge Give Detroit Schools a Fresh Start Food Future Past Going Beyond Black and White |
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The Collapse of Urban Public Schooling By Floyd W. Hayes, III |
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The Jones Family Express Interview with Javaka Steptoe Back To School Again Children Are Our Future Concentration Is African Libraries Project What Consolidation Is Christ The Global African Presence
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Cecil Elementary's Black History Month 2/4/1913 -10/24/2005 ~A civilized society distinguishes itself by how fairly it treats its constituents~ -mb |
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Zora Neale Hurston -- Court Order Can't Make Races Mix / The Black Joan of Arc |
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A Transformative Research and Action Agenda for the New Century Edited by Joyce E. King |
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Black Tech Review (by Rudy) e-drum moving
Responses to Black IT Uses & Cyberspace Arthur Flowers Mona Lisa Saloy Joyce King |
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If black people were more angry—For black people, especially, the current composition of the Supreme Court should be the ultimate lesson in the importance of voting in a presidential election. No branch of the government has been more crucial than the judiciary in securing the rights and improving the lives of blacks over the past five or six decades. George W. Bush, in a little more than six years, has tilted the court so radically that it is now, like the administration itself, relentlessly hostile to the interests of black people. That never would have happened if blacks had managed significantly more muscular turnouts in the 2000 and 2004 elections. (The war in Iraq would not have happened, either.) Bob Herbert. “when is enough enough?” NYTimes
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A Door To The Future From The Struggles of the Past Waverly Students Share Essays |
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Rodney D. Foxworth, Jr.-- School Daze A Depravity of Logic A Naïve Political Treatise A Report on a Gathering at Red Emma's Urban Legends
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Up from Slavery A Documentary History of Negro Education (Table) Newspaper Clippings & Other Archival Documents |
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Follow the Students! MARCH! Stop School Closings! Friday, March 24, 4:30-5 at City Hall (Baltimore) Dilemma of Black Urban Education? Statistics on the Inequities The Collapse of Urban Public Schooling |
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By Javaka Steptoe |
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Jane Musoke-Nteyafas: WHERE IS THE LOVE OF ALL THINGS AFRICAN? / Women’s Role in Hip Hop |
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Taneesha’s Treasures of the Heart By M. LaVora Perry |
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Alberto O. Cappas. An Educational Pledge -- A positive journey for our youth. For Schools: Teachers, Parents, & Students: "One cannot keep hope alive if no plan of action is in place" Check out our Pledge T-Shirt at www.aneducationalpledge.com / Cappas@aol.com |
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Educator Writes and Self-Publishes Children's Book By Junious Ricardo Stanton
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Sermon on the Mount / What if there was no God / For Walter Cotton, Outlaw / African Retentions / Support ChickenBones: A Journal We need your help. Any level of support would be greatly appreciated --$10, $15, $25, or more. Donations of any amount should be made out to ChickenBones: A Journal. Please send your check or money order to: ChickenBones: A Journal / 13219 Kientz Road / Jarratt, VA 23867 |
