What: “Africa’s Future in African Hands” International speaking tour featuring Nurse Midwife Mary Koroma from Sierra Leone, West Africa When/Where: 1st, 9am-5pm at the Fourth Annual Earth Uprising Fest & Flea in Clark Park, 43rd & Chester Ave, West Philadelphia; T... Read more...
Eyka Stephens, a trainer in a program for teachers, dancing with a student, Roquan Greene, at Brick Avon Academy in Newark. (Photo by Richard Perry/The New York Times) Syidah O'Bryant scribbled notes in a composition book, trying to keep up with a lesson about why teenagers are so sleepy in the mor... Read more...
Black, low-income youths struggling the most, with employment rate at historic depths Anjelica Pickett, 17, has been searching for a job for about a year. Despite making as many as five applications in a day during that time, Pickett, now a freshman at Truman College, said she's scored only one ... Read more...
... or Where Are We Really at War? This is not an article to demonize young Black men. This is an article to help stop the carnage in Black communities across America, to begin the process of rebuilding these communities and to re-engineer the lives of young Black men. Many young Black men fe... Read more...
Jobs. It’s the word you’ve been hearing repeatedly for the past couple of years. It’s what Republicans claim President Obama has failed us on. It’s what many Americans find themselves looking for day after day, interview after interview. I recently started a new job of my own t... Read more...
Twenty men-teachers, businessmen, writers and pastors-have been named winners of the BME Leadership Award, created to honor black men in Philadelphia and Detroit who step up to lead the community. "There is no cavalry coming to save the day in black communities in America. The answers we're looki... Read more...
A black man plays Uncle Tom in order to gain access to CIA training, then uses that knowledge to plot a new American Revolution. Director: Ivan Dixon Writers: Sam Greenlee (screenplay), Melvin Clay (screenplay), and 1 more credit » Stars: Lawrence Cook, Janet League and Paula Kell... Read more...
Black and Hispanic students are far more likely to be kicked out of school when they break the rules, including some that often have nothing to do with keeping students safe, according to a new report from a civil rights research and advocacy group. And school discipline records are t... Read more...
A federal investigation into whether Los Angeles students are denied educational opportunities has prompted the school system to overhaul its approach to teaching immigrant and black students, federal and city officials said Tuesday. The investigation was part of a probe by the U.S. Department ... Read more...