If you can be emasculated by another man boldly living his truth, then your masculinity is about as strong as wet generic brand toilet tissue. Invariably, I somehow manage to be tagged in articles which seek to blame the depiction of Black gay men in [...]
The brutal arrest of a student in a South Carolina classroom in the last week of October 2015 has sparked outrage over the treatment of Black girls in public schools across the South. An Index of the History By Sue Sturgis | Originally Published [...]
By Alex S. Vitale | Originally Published at The Nation. October 28, 2015 | Photographic Credit; WHNT. The mainstream media are abuzz with possible justifications for the videotaped brutalization of a South Carolina high-school student by a sheriff’s deputy assigned to the school. CNN analyst and former [...]
By Abby Norman | Originally Published at Huffington Post. October 15, 2015 8:55 AM EDT Updated: October 22, 2015 3:59 PM EDT | Photographic Credit; Six Black students attempted to enter North Little Rock High School, part of a segregated district in September 9, 1957. Decades later, [...]
Within the popular American conscience—arguably a close reflection of the mainstream media—there are two favored focal points for discussing the problem of poverty. The first is within the urban, inner city context—often conflated with black poverty—which has held a critical role in American political and [...]
By Rebecca Carroll | Originally Published at Guardian and Observer. October 22 , 2015 12.45 EDT | Photographic Credit; Toni Morrison on Political Correctness. "What I think the political correctness debate is really about is the power to be able to define,,," AngertAesthetics There is a theory [...]
By Jeff Bryant | Originally Published at Education Opportunity Network. October 21, 2015 at 8:47 PM | U.S Secretary of Education Arne Duncan speaks during a White House Hispanic Community Action Summit at Fox Tech High School in San Antonio. (Lisa Krantz / San Antonio Express-News) America’s [...]
It was close to midnight. A youngish, jovial-looking white woman with russet colored hair ran by me with ostensive ease. She donned earphones and dark, body-fitting jogging attire. I was walking home from the A train stop and along Lewis Avenue, which is a moderately [...]
By Jeff Bryant | Originally Published at Education Opportunity Network. October 15, 2015 3:16 PM | Photographic CreditSenior Education Department official, John King Jr., left, accompanied by President Barack Obama, speaks in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, October 2. (AP Photo/Andrew [...]
