A few reasons to celebrate our progress

I found this on the website Blacksuccessfoundation.org
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The New Orleans Center for Science & Math is a high school program with an enrollment that is 95% African-American, 65% female and 70% high poverty. There is no admission test and they accept a broad range of students who demonstrate interest in science and math. 93% of [...]

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More Blacks entering Ivy league schools

(blackenterprise.com) Racial diversity among first-year students is increasing at Ivy League institutions and other high-ranking, predominantly white colleges and universities.
The number of first-year African American students for the 2005—2006 academic year increased at universities such as Vanderbilt, Princeton, and Columbia, according to “The Progress of Black Student Enrollments at the Nation’s Highest-Ranked Colleges and Universities,” [...]

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School choice in Canada

(LifeSiteNews.com) - Private Christian schools in the province of Quebec must teach sex education and Darwin‘s theory of evolution, the province’s Ministry of Education has ordered, or they will be shut down.
The National Post reported today on a controversial decision by Quebec’s education ministry to force small Christian schools to comply with provincial curriculum standards [...]

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Time to take advantage of the help that is out there

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(oregonlive.com) [Mel] Kohn released his State of African American Health in Oregon report at Friday’s second annual Health Disparities Conference, organized by the African American Health Coalition. His presentation was full of eye-opening statistics and a thinly disguised truth: Health disparities could be dramatically reduced if black people would take better care of themselves.
“At some [...]

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