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September 13, 2010 – September 19, 2010
Jobless youth ‘a time bomb Caiphus Kgosana, Times Lives, September 19, 2010 Empowerment Program Offers Youths a Second Chance Ronnie Figueroa, South Florida Times, September 18, 2010 Youth unemployment affects mental health and wellbeing new report shows Ruth Dayspring, Black Mental Health, September 17, 2010 City Takes on Youth Violence Prevention Jonathan Friedman, The Lookout, September 17, 2010 Youth […]
A Review: Waiting for Superman
Tonight I got the opportunity to watch a private viewing of the new critically acclaimed documentary film titled Waiting for Superman, made by director Davis Guggenheim (who won a 2006 Academy Award for An Inconvenient Truth). It is being released this Friday (A must see). The film delves through the various facets of the failing education […]
Girls Have To Do What They Can
The pressure is on for Afghani women to predict the gender of the children they give birth to and the pressure is on for those children to be boys. An Afghani custom that seems to have gone on for years is to dress one young girl in the family as a boy, cut her hair short and have […]
The Fantasy of Football
A few years ago during a trip to Las Vegas, NV (the only place not named Fort Wayne, Indiana where my father willingly spends the night), I spied Doug Williams in the food court of an outlet mall. My father, sister, and I were sitting at a table eating crappy fast food when I spotted […]
16 Bars for Power
Just because you are young and Black it doesn’t mean that the world cannot respect you. Back in the day Fred Hampton, a black 19 year old at the time, started a Chicago chapter of the Black Panthers; they influenced the nationwide lunch programs in American schools. As youth we are too legit to have […]
To Represent the Unrepresented, To Account for the Unaccounted For.
Just the other night, my mother and I were walking to our car in a parking lot. A young, twenty-something, homeless (however, reasonably put together) black man, approached us. He explained to us that he had spent the evening sitting in the police station (why, I don’t know) and was then planning on walking quite a […]
September 6, 2010 – September 12, 2010
Greater respect toward others The Tribune-Democrat, September 12, 2010 New ATF boss feels kinship with troubled youth O’Ryan Johnson, Boston Herald, September 12, 2010 Student Org. Aids African Orphanage Cindy Huynh, Cornell Daily Sun, September 12, 2010 With grant, gym turns to full-time youth mentoring Sean Golden, The Eagle-Gazette, September 12, 2010 Teens work to improve dunes parks’ […]
Uninspired Nihilism
Lately, I’ve found it exceedingly difficult to blog. To be sure, it’s not because I lack the desire to write and make you privy to my mental awesomeness each Monday morning, but rather because I’ve essentially checked out of the blogging world. I wish I could blame it on my dissertation. (It’s coming along. Not […]
Muslim Hate: Northern- and Southern-Style
A southerner once told me that American racism in the North was worse than in the South. For him, the covert racism he experienced in certain northern cities was more dangerous and misleading. Not sure I ever really understood the call for a more “upfront” racism as it seemed a scary thing that I could be called a Nigger in the open or accosted in a way that reminded me of my place in the world.
The End of an Era
In life everything comes to an end. (Well most things, poverty is staying pretty consistent on us). But for the most part, things come to an end, eventually. I for one never thought my senior year of high school would end, as the sickness of senioritis went into full fruition at the end of my […]
Terry Jones & The Story Of Religious (In)tolerance
“I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him”- Booker T. Washington. We live in a seemingly tolerant nation. We have a Black President, more than dozen female CEO’s of fortune 500 companies, and a few LBTQ members of Congress. Let’s give ourselves a pat on the back. We’re […]
Food for Thought: The F#ck up that is the FDA
With the latest food recall still underway, one could make the argument that members of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) don’t actually eat food, at least not the the same things they are allowing to make it to our plates. Or perhaps the FDA only employs individuals with private gardens and free roaming chickens in their own spacial backyards. If so, the rampant oversight and lack of quality assurance makes more sense. Not saying it is right, but it would be easier to digest it all. Pun intended.