Research

My main reason for compiling this list is because oftentimes good information posted on various websites oftentimes becomes lost due to website closures. This is just a repository of files I feel contain invaluable information that will help you gain a better understanding on important issues.

NOTE: Unless otherwise stated, all documents are NOT authored by this website or any of its contributors. All credits go to the respected authors of these documents.

This page will be constantly updated, so check back often.

The following links are all in .pdf format.

EDUCATION

Congressional Black Caucus on school vouchers (BlackInformant.com document)

A School Voucher Program For Baltimore City

Reading At Risk: A Survey of Literary Reading in America

83 steps to Fire a N.Y. Teacher

Where Do Public School Teachers Send Their Kids to School? (Thomas B. Fordham Institute)

GOVERNMENT

EXPEDITED ASSISTANCE FOR VICTIMS OF HURRICANES KATRINA AND RITA FEMA’s Control

Weaknesses Exposed the Government to Significant Fraud and Abuse Monday, February 13, 2006

Democrat Operatives Far More Involved In Voter Intimidation And Suppression In 2004, Thousands Of Americans Disenfranchised By Vote Fraud On Election Day (American Center for Voting Rights)

Population Representation in the Military Services (2004)

CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND REHABILITATION Review Report

HEALTHCARE DELIVERY SYSTEM (2006)

Here’s an excerpt:“It costs $3,850 per year to provide health insurance to the average California worker. CDCR spends $7,000 per inmate per year on healthcare.”

SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY

Where Imported Oil Really Comes From

Ethanol from Corn: Just How Unsustainable Is It?

COMMUNITY

State of Our Nation’s Youth – 2004-2005

Black Homicide Victimization in the United States

Healthy Marriages in Low-Income African-American Communities (Prepared by Robert M. Franklin, Ph.D., Emory University, Stephanie C. Boddie, Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis

HISTORY

African American Entrepreneurship: The View from the 1910 Census

<a href=”http://www.blackinformant.com/pdf_files/2006history_lectures_booklist.pdf“>Bibliography in Western African American History

Color, Communism and Common Sense – Manning Johnson

ECONOMICS

Understanding the Unemployment Debate

GatewayJobs.com – A resource for understanding the low-skilled labor force

Recovery, Renewal, and Resiliency: Gulf Coast Small Businesses Two Years Later (by Michael Turner, Ph.D., Robin Varghese, Ph.D., Patrick Walker, M.A.–August 2007)

Raising the Minimum Wage: Another Empty Promise to the Working Poor

Employment Policies Institute (by Author(s): Richard V. Burkhauser – Cornell University, Joseph J. Sabia – University of Georgia)

African-American Chamber Survey: 40 Percent of Black Businesses Have Difficulty Finding Trained Staff; 81.8 Percent of Black Firm Employees are African-American

Why Are Black-Owned Businesses Less Successful that White-Owned Businesses? The Role of Families, Inheritances and Business Human Capital by Robert W. Fairlie and Alicia M. Robb 9/04

Great video series by Economist Milton Friedman

MEDIA SCREW-UPS

Media Myths About The Jena 6 (Christian Science Monitor)

FILM

>Historical

The Birth of a Nation

>Civil Rights Era

The Bloody March

Civil Rights March of Greensboro

MALCOLM X: Malcolm X Explains Black Nationalism

MALCOLM X: The House Negro and The Field Negro

MALCOLM X: The Assassination of Malcolm X

>Other

Aron Ranen’s Black Hair Documentary Part One

Aron Ranen’s Black Hair Documentary Part Two

Aron Ranen’s Black Hair Documentary Part Three

Aron Ranen’s Black Hair Documentary Part Four

Aron Ranen’s Black Hair Documentary- Report from London

NEW-Part One “Black Hair” Documentary Film Update July 2006

What Black Men Think PSA

Martin Luther King JR. – BoonDocks

Google Notebook Links

In the very near future I will have a list of online notebooks categorized by topic in the space below.