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Black men and education

Oct 28th, 2008 | By N'Mama | Category: Education, Our Boys

Black men and education: Focus of Urban League report
Marlon A. Walker
This year’s “The State of Black America” study by the National Urban League pays the most attention to Black males because they are further away from parity with their White counterparts in several significant categories.
Black men face the greatest battle to gain equality in society, [...]



Our Black Boys

Aug 28th, 2008 | By N'Mama | Category: Our Boys

Seems like boys and school just don’t mix, do they? They just can’t seem to take four to five hours of sitting still at a desk, writing or reading or listening to the teacher. They wriggle, they scratch themselves, they crumple up little pieces of paper, they look around the room to see [...]