Ok... ok...ok I get it. I understand that Gucci Mane is writing for her. I understand that her gimic is the fact that she can say n*gga (or Not?) because "people call her sister that"... Whether her or Garth Algar from Wayne's World uses it, its still not cool. Shes young and she ... Read more...
THE MOM BRIGADE: Nettelhorst was a failing educational backwater in Lake View (Chicago, Illinois) when some determined moms got involved-and sparked a tremendous improvement. On a windy morning this past fall, 20 parents gathered inside Nettelhorst Elementary School in east Lake View, some with... Read more...
THE legal scholar Derrick A. Bell foresaw that mass incarceration, like earlier systems of racial control, would continue to exist as long as it served the perceived interests of white elites. Thirty years of civil rights litigation and advocacy have failed to slow the pace of a racially biased d... Read more...
When emigrated from Nigeria with her family in 2005, she left behind her home and her native tongue, but held fast to one simple principle: "If I wanted to be the valedictorian, I couldn't slack." On Wednesday, she will give the valedictory speech - in English - at the Social Justice Academy i... Read more...
For years, the SAT has come under attack for having a certain bent. From the Harvard Educational Review to the Princeton Review, the measurement tool has been called a "white preference test." Last year, Harvard published a study arguing that SAT questions in the verbal section favored white stu... Read more...
The FBI on Friday is investigating more than three dozen suspicious letters containing a white powdery substance sent to schools in the capital area, leading authorities to race across the city to check for possible threats. No hazardous substance was found and no illnesses or injuries were r... Read more...
In 1890, the woman suffrage movement began, black and white women fought together for the same goal — enfranchisement of women. But as the movement gained popularity, African American women found themselves being marginalized. African American women soon found themselves fighting against sexism ... Read more...
Unfortunely this is part of our history; I feel like people need to know there are still minstrels in entertainment today but without the paint. So, before Lil Wayne and BET, in the 1840s and 50s, William Henry Lane and Thomas Dilward became the first African Americans to perform on the minstre... Read more...
Extract 28 Negative Vs Positive It must now be stated that if anti-nature negative forces exceed positive forces (the nature of nature) to an extent that those positive forces own existence is challenged. A counter reaction must occur to re-position positive and negative more evenly again. ... Read more...