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NIPSEY; THE PRICE FOR EMPOWERMENT
Nipsey Hussle’s Work In The Black Community Went Deeper Than You Think Before his death, the rapper was involved in projects focused on revitalizing his South LA neighborhood and supporting STEM among black and brown youths. When Los Angeles–based rapper Nipsey Hussle was shot and killed on March 31 at the age of 33, […]
Read More NIPSEY; THE PRICE FOR EMPOWERMENTRACE is a LIE by Jane Elliot
Jane Elliott: The INTERVIEW
Anti-Racism Activist Jane Elliott Will Never Stop Fighting Jane Elliott was teaching elementary school in Riceville, Iowa, in 1968 when Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot and killed in Memphis, Tennessee. In thinking about how to convey the enormity of what happened and why to her all-white class of third graders, she put together a […]
Read More Jane Elliott: The INTERVIEWJane Elliot in San Diego
She tells it like it is, “Ignorance is the core of the racial problem.” An hour history lesson from Jane Elliott is worth a 12-year Ph.D. in any educational circle. She’s everything we thought she would be and more. This visit was especially important due to the timely U-T incident where cartoonist, Steve Breen created […]
Read More Jane Elliot in San DiegoMeet the iGEN
Meet iGen: The new generation of workers that is almost everything millennials aren’t Just as managers got used to managing their millennial employees, there’s a new generation knocking on the doors of employers: iGen. Born between 1995 and 2012, the first of iGen graduated from college last spring. (iGen is sometimes called “GenZ,” but with […]
Read More Meet the iGENCan’t lose INDEPENDENCE
“African American buying power is at 1.1 Trillion dollars and yet only 2 cents of every dollar an African American spends in this country goes to Black-owned businesses. – NAACP. “Over the years, beauty salons and barber shops have come to provide a unique social function. . . Scholars often cite these sites as “sanctuaries […]
Read More Can’t lose INDEPENDENCEPolitical Icon Ron Dellums A Radical for LIFE
Political Icon Ron Dellums A Radical for LIFE Ronald V. Dellums, the son of a West Oakland longshoreman who as a liberal Congressman never forgot his roots as an anti-war activist and human rights champion, died early Monday at his Washington, D.C., home. He was 82. Dellums, who ended his political career as mayor of […]
Read More Political Icon Ron Dellums A Radical for LIFEMost-Educated Group in the Country
African American Women Most Educated Group in the Country By Kali Halloway -June 29, 2018 Statistics on black women and education have shown them leading all other gender and racial groups for a few years now. More than half of all black women specifically between the ages of 18 and 24 are enrolled in college, […]
Read More Most-Educated Group in the CountrySeparated Children
It’s Only Going to Get Worse By ~ Dr. Bob Filner “Family Reunification”: how is it gonna happen? We all know how often bureaucracy fails to work. Bureaucracy at the border is thousand times worse. Presumably, the separated children were not tattooed with a case number (although the whiff of fascism is in the air, […]
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