The election of Barack Obama has obscured the tragic and ugly side of what is happening in poor and working African America neighborhoods, especially to young black men. As Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow points out, “today an astounding percentage of the African American community is warehoused in prisons or trapped...
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Tags: Black America, black family, black males, black youth, War on Drugs, young black men
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Kwanzaa a value-based cultural holiday, which is now recognized as an official school holiday to be celebrated offers a potent message and method for promoting and encouraging black achievement.
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Tags: Black student acheivement, Education, Kwanzaa, Kwanzaa Symbols
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What is at stake is not merely the loss of jobs for blacks, but the loss and destruction of family, community and social life.
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Using steroids and getting the highest short term financial return, is what “taking care of business” is about in America.
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