This is alarming... Their are black males in Milwaukee? Only about 45-percent of working age black men in Metro Milwaukee had jobs in 2010. That's according to a study of census data by UW-Milwaukee. A report released yesterday showed that the area's black male employment was 53-percent just... Read more...
Susan Taylor, the Mother of Mentoring in America, Is Asking You To Be "In" for Our Children Susan TaylorWants You To Be "In"! Harry Belafonte"I'm In!" Danny Glover"I'm In!" Mariah Carey"I'm In!" Oprah Winfrey"I'm In!" ... Read more...
delivered 3 April 1968, Mason Temple (Church of God in Christ Headquarters), Memphis, Tennessee Thank you very kindly, my friends. As I listened to Ralph Abernathy and his eloquent and generous introduction and then thought about myself, I wondered who he was talking about. It's always good ... Read more...
Photos courtesy Oblate Sisters of Providence Archives, Baltimore, Md. - The St. Frances Home for Girls in Normandy, Mo., near St. Louis, was founded by the Oblate Sisters of Providence, an African-American order providing black girls with elementary education and domestic training. Long before the... Read more...
Earlier this week, the FBI trumpeted the news that violent crime dropped 5.5% in 2010 while reported property crimes fell 2.8% during the depths of the worst economic slowdown since the Great Depression. The news, though, is far from positive. Though most regions of the U.S. saw decline... Read more...
Posted on March 22, 2011 by theblackmancan A significant body of empirical research has demonstrated that Black male students academically underperform all students throughout the educational pipeline (Hawkins, 2010; Jackson, 2003). One has to wonder how this can be a reality when there are so... Read more...
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19/01/2011,
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Can we blame this on Hustle N Flow, Young Buck or Three Six Mafia? I bet they'll find a way... If you need a little push to talk to your kids about sex, birth control and abstinence, consider this scary story: One Memphis high school has 90 pregnant students. That's 20 percent of the school'... Read more...
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16/09/2010,
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Ernest Withers, a revered civil rights photographer who captured iconic images of Martin Luther King Jr. on the night King was shot in Memphis, actually played a different role the day before: FBI informant. The Commercial Appeal, a newspaper in Memphis, just completed a two-year investigation ... Read more...
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27/06/2010,
by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in Clothing,
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Photographer Ernie Paniccioli explains: The Shirt was created by my Haitian best friend who is now sadly MIA. He knew 2010 was the date when all types of evil would be manifested both man made and by the forces of nature as in Earthquakes (China, Haiti, Chile) volcanoes (Iceland), flooding (Mem... Read more...