After Trayvon - Black Boys Speak
Several young Black young men talk about Trayvon Martin, race, the police, and what it means to be men of color today.
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The Style Council - My Ever Changing Moods (by TheStyleCouncilVEVO)
LOVE IT!!
helping black men raise failing grades
“Education was a very useful weapon in my struggle for survival, and I’m convinced it still is. Maybe more so now.”
For New Life, Blacks in City Head to South
reverse migration
Class of 2011: High School Graduation at Rikers Island Jail
“Jail should be used for transformation,” the teen who now dreams of being a computer engineer and music producer told the other inmates. “Some people think of it as the end, but it’s more of a new beginning. The majority of our leaders and idols have made a negative decision at some point in their lives.”
this guy
Maaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnn look … I’m not even going to start with the most obvious point of being a politician in the digital age where everything can be exposed in the blink of an eye who should know better. Forget the idea that a person in your position should be a role model for the citizens of not just your district but the country. Let’s put on the back burner that man such as yourself who is practically a newly wed to an accomplished, educated, beautiful wife should not be creeping. Congressman, you should have just known better based on your last name alone! I mean, c’mon now … Weiner?!?! You’ve had this name your WHOLE LIFE!!
In teachers we trust? | Need to Know
“A number of those interviewed, including Finland’s Minister of Education and Science and Hong Kong’s Under Secretary for Education, echoed the sentiment that education is more effective when the teachers are well-trained and respected as professionals.”
badu!
A great response to that BS, racist, pseudo-scientific piece in Psychology Today on why black women are supposedly the least attractive women on the planet. Yeah, right.
I had to make this because I was planning to write an extended rant about the long-standing obsession with dehumanizing, de-feminizing, disrespecting, marginalizing and silencing Black women, but I honestly don’t know what I can add to the discussion at this point. Re-blog if you adore Black Women.
As a Black woman myself, I approve. We’re hated on for those exact reasons you stated. It drives people up the wall when someone is intelligent, smart AND beautiful, add in that they are a minority, whoa that shit just BOTHERS and BLOWS MINDS because in their eyes they see it as “how dare they show me up! I’m supposed to be above them!” When folks can’t buy what makes Black women tick with a check book or pray on their knees for it, they hate, plain and simple…I could spend a whole day discussing/writing about this just from experience, but it’s just plain and simple—-people hate what they can’t obtain on their own merits.
the saga continues . . .
Yo-Yo Ma and a young dancer in LA, Lil Buck
