1370 Search results for "reason"

Reformers Can’t Dodge Race Issues Richard Whitmire, Huffington Post | March 8, 2011 School reformers like to talk, so they conference a lot. They like writing even more, so they dash off torrents of commentaries on improving schools. But in all that talking and writing there is one topic that rarely gets raised, especially among […]

For Young, Sex Falls in Survey Associated Press | March 3, 2011 ATLANTA (AP) — Fewer teenagers and young adults are having sex, a government survey shows. The study, released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is based on interviews with about 5,300 young people, ages 15 to 24. It shows that […]

Boston Club Apologizes for Discriminating Against Black Harvard Students Associated Press | February 25, 2011 BOSTON — The owners of a Boston nightclub issued a public apology and agreed Friday to pay a $30,000 fine to settle allegations that it abruptly shut down an event after the annual Harvard-Yale football game because most of the […]

Happy Thanksgiving, Black Folks. This past weekend was the NBA’s 60th annual All-Star weekend. In a CNN article, NBA reporter David Aldridge referred to the weekend as Black Thanksgiving. Forget all the profound reasons to dispute the claim and be honest. For the basketball crazed among us, NBA All-Star weekend is something like a holiday.

I grew up in Chicago with a mom that was overzealous about education.  By the time I was twelve, I’d gone to seven different schools.  I went to one school for Kindergarten, two schools for first grade, I was home-schooled halfway through second grade and then started at a new school where I stayed for […]

I walked up to a 40-foot high fence, while noticing a small yellow sign in the peripheral. The sign said “Caution: High Voltage Fence.” It was made apparent that I was entering into what I could only understand as one of the many manifestations of an incarceration system. When I entered through the front door […]

Advocates address rising poverty among black children Krissah Thompson, Washington Post (via Boston Globe) | January 23, 2011 WASHINGTON — Two decades ago, 22 black leaders gathered for a retreat on farmland in rural Tennessee once owned by writer Alex Haley. The reason for the gathering, which included historian John Hope Franklin and civil rights […]

Here’s what, I know it’s awkward sometimes. But there’s no reason it should be. If we just asked the difficult questions without being concerned with how it will look. So White people, this is for you. Here are a three quick things your Black friend(s) are too politically correct to tell you. All my black […]

Somewhere in Chicago the most promising band has its members contorting their bodies a few more times before it pries open the mouths of audiences across the world. Whether the gesture be frantic fingertips of an emcee, a rattling head of a saxophone player, or a subtle hand-to-thigh clap of a singer, the soul of […]

*Someone please cue my righteous indignation music* It seems that we have officially reached the end of days.  Birds are falling out of the sky; dead fish are coming in with the tide.  News outlets are doing their best not to refer to Jared Loughner’s acts as ones of terrorism, and simply make efforts to […]

This post is obviously a week late. I wasn’t able to post it last week but I still wanted to share. The perception that Kwanzaa is inaccessible, and only celebrated by daishiki clad radicals and those of us trying too hard to reclaim our African roots is outdated. I’ve seen more and more that Kwanzaa […]