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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Julius Erving, Will Smith among those interested purchasing the 76ers

(Bloomberg) — Julius Erving, who led the Philadelphia 76ers to their last National Basketball Association championship, would be an asset if he were to be part of a group interested in buying the team, former general manager Pat Williams said.
Erving, a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame, is among one of five groups in [...]

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A real problem that has been in the works for years

Recently, I had the opportunity to see excerpts of Spike Lee’s documentary on New Orleans entitled “When the Levees Broke”. While I found the footage quite moving, the one question that I just could not get out of my mind was “Why did he not do his documentary BEFORE the levees broke?” Although I have [...]

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Dissin’ our Black women on a global scale

Found on a Chinese website (link)
Found on a U.K. website (link)
Found on a Japanese website (link)
Found on a Swiss website (link)
While this website from Denmark did not put up the image, they still sell the album on this website.
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At some point, this is no longer “art”.

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Encouraging our kids to be their best

How to Prevent Academic Failure and Misbehavior
By Matthew Lynch
(Bzine.com)
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During my second year of teaching, I had a student in my Social Studies class who tried her best but just couldn’t pass my quizzes or tests. My job was not to be complacent with her performance but to help lift her to the next [...]

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Further proof why Black folks will not get reparations

For real? This post is a waste of time, but here it goes..
First the news…
(eurweb.com) Rose Rock plans to sue the establishment after claiming she was racially discriminated against when she was seated but ignored for more than a half hour at one of its South Carolina restaurants.
Mrs. Rock, who is from Georgetown, SC, [...]

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Poverty has very little to do with the death rate in the Black community

I don’t know how many times I have encountered folks who hold on to the claim that poverty is the sole indicator behind the death rate in the Black community. The following article does a good job spelling out ALL of the indicators.
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Blacks die younger than whites, regardless of income
By Tracy Wheeler
Akron Beacon Journal

AKRON, Ohio [...]

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Some history for ya’: Lewis Latimer

(uuworld.org) Rarely today does a single person get credit for a major technological advance the way Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell did in the nineteenth century. Yet even back then, inventions were almost always the product of many ingenious minds collaborating and competing with one another.
Brilliant, modest, and still little known, Lewis Latimer was [...]

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