There is no longer a need for dire predictions, hand-wringing, or apprehension about losing a generation of black boys. It is too late. In education, employment, economics, incarceration, health, housing, and parenting, we have lost a generation of young black men. The question that remains is will... Read more...
TRIBUTE TO THE MILLION FATHER MARCH By Useni Eugene Perkins We march, we march, we march As men of faith, courage and resolve As men of different hues, religions and creeds To be the fathers we should be We are Fathers, Grand Fathers, Foster Fathers, Step Fathers, God Fathers and Com... Read more...
by Luke Douglas EDUCATORS are being urged to incorporate the experiences of boys outside of school into to the classroom, and to give boys more space to express themselves without reprimand as ways to improve their performance in the education system. Participants at a one-day workshop tackl... Read more...
Bob Marley - Is This Love? Bob Marley & The Wailers - Redemption Song Bob Marley - Stir It Up Today, May 11, 2011, is the 30 year anniversary of the death of Bob Marley, a Jamaican musician credited as a legend of Jamaican music and a spreader of the Rastafari movement, a religiou... Read more...
Gregory Isaacs — one of the most popular and versatile reggae singers of the late-1970s, and the smooth-voiced dancehall crooner behind the genre's landmark 1982 LP Night Nurse — passed away this morning at his London home following a year-long battle with lung cancer, the BBC reports. Isaacs ... Read more...
Sarah Baartman (1789-1815), also known as Saartjie Baartman or the Hottentot Venus, was an African woman who became a sideshow in London and Paris. She was almost completely naked and had a very large behind, even for the part of Africa she came from – near Cape Town in South Africa. Those wh... Read more...