I have not yet read the book, but I have ordered it. I heard about this book first on Twitter, believe it or not, and the subject matter interests me very much. I was just have a conversation the other day with someone about how Black slaves and free Blacks – many of [...]
I never knew why Bill Cosby got so much flak for what he said about the (black) people who are doing nothing with their lives. Granted, with some of the scandals that he’s had (remember the long lost daughter, and the woman in Philly who accused him of drugging her) he’s not the most [...]
This article partially reflects my last post – Giving Black Children a Voice. It is a reprint from the Boston Globe.
Black parents tackle a gap
By Tatsha Robertson, Globe Staff | March 28, 2005
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As an educator of over 15 years, a black parent: the mother of three children of my own, I have seen so many black children fall through the cracks and many of them achieve. However, this is not going to a denigration of the school system, but hopefully a guide on how we, as [...]
How To Raise Black Boys
Glenn Jeffers
THE struggle to raise African-American males in American society hit Dr. Pearlman Hicks 10 years ago when his then-11-year-old son, Timothy, brought home a report card full of D’s. Timothy, once an A-student, had become angry and unresponsive, his father says, and was “hanging around kids who were just hanging [...]
