by admin | Oct 31, 2007 | Announcements, Black Family |
My daughter turns 13 next week. A teenager. What my wife and I are interested in doing is building a “wall of wisdom”. A collection of ideas and sayings from people we’ve come across in our physical and virtual sojourn. If you could tell a teenager...
by admin | Oct 24, 2007 | Black Family |
Carrie Spence (1920-2007) Isaiah Spence (1921-1983) Originally uploaded by Lester Spence. My grandmother passed away last week. She was 87 and had more than a good life. There are a couple of folks who have been using Flickr as a historical repository for photographs...
by admin | Oct 8, 2007 | Crime and Punishment, Education, Gender and Politics, Racial Politics |
I do not know if this new justice movement has legs, but I wrote earlier that this is about justice for EVERYONE that simply STARTS with black children. Trickle up politics at its best. In writing about the Shaquanda Cotton case many of us blogged (and Howard Witt...
by admin | Sep 23, 2007 | Black Family |
The first gap is the gap between black and white children in school achievement, covered here. (I’ll likely make a pdf of it and try to remember to include it later because the link will likely dissolve within a week or two.) The second is the earning gap...
by admin | Sep 9, 2007 | Black Family |
Stop using your underwear as nunchucks.
by admin | Aug 5, 2007 | Gender and Politics, Racial Politics, The Mass Media |
And gets bits right. But because they’re interested in dealing with intra-racial dynamics rather than inter-racial ones (which is odd given the subject) they miss the forest for the trees. They also put the tired bit in about successful black men “getting...
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