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Being Proactive in 2009: Economic Stimulus For the Mind
Published on 12 Jan 2009 at 10:30 pm.
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Filed under blackonomics, ignorance, education, economy.
Happy New Year!
In the financial world, I don’t know anyone who was not eager to kiss 2008 goodbye. It was a tumultuous year, one frequented by reactive behavior. Reacting to failure a la Lehman Brothers…reacting to fraud as per Bernie Madoff…I could go on about the economic ills of the year all day long, […]
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Is Hip Hop Mentally Challenged Music?
Published on 19 Sep 2008 at 12:18 am.
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Filed under racism, entertainment, music, history, education.
The Reign of Retarded Rap by Min. Paul Scott
Over the last two years, Black America has been discussed by the mainstream media perhaps more times than in recent history. Between Don Imus, the Jena 6 and the presidential election, for a moment, it began to seem that black folks were, at least, beginning to put […]
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Duke Student Lashes Out NC Central University
Published on 25 May 2008 at 11:55 am.
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Filed under racism, education.
“It seems anyone can get a college degree these days-especially if they go to North Carolina Central University.” Journalist Kristin Butler writes, “standards of integrity there have long been dismal: This is, after all, the school that gave violent felon Solomon Burnette a diploma in 2007.”
This is excerpted from an article entitled, SUMMA CUM LOONY […]
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FBI’s MLKonspiracy
Published on 2 Apr 2008 at 1:57 am.
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Filed under history, education.
A CNN special report on the FBI’s conspiracy against Martin Luther King, Jr. will air this Thursday, April 3rd, at 9pm. Initially the FBI was concerned with Kings possible associations with the Communist party, but eventually the investigation turned personal. Several official memos from FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover have been uncovered, revealing his disgust […]
The Black History Front
Published on 20 Feb 2008 at 4:30 pm.
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Filed under Uncategorized, black culture, history, education.
Black History Month is a beautiful thing. It’s so nice to see all of the colleges, universities, community centers, museums and churches putting on programs that embrace African American history and culture for a change. I enjoy seeing commercials, fliers, billboards and other cultural artifacts that validate the Black experience, just as much as the […]
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Afro Techie
Published on 4 Jan 2008 at 4:58 pm.
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Filed under black culture, education, technology.
Blackademics,
Every now and again it’s important to give props to local smaller achievements in the African American community as a reminder that we are doing great things. We have to advertise our own successes and support each other. With that said, I was elated to find out about the following small yet substantial achievement. Norfolk State University alumni, […]
The American Story: Through the tale of the African American Woman
Published on 27 Nov 2007 at 10:52 am.
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Filed under news/politics, women's issues/feminism, education.
According to Rehema Ellis, a correspondent for Nightly News with Brian Williams, her 5 day series will do just that…tell the tale of the African American woman’s success and its significant impact on the AFrican American community as a whole.
The series entitled African American Women: Where They Stand will be a five part series of the […]
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it takes a Villiage
Published on 13 Nov 2007 at 1:06 pm.
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We’re not in the business of posting job announcements on Blackademics, (you can peep craigslist for that), but this is a special exception! The Harlem-based college prep non-profit called Village Academics is looking for some passionate scholars such as yourselves to help educate our young New Yorkers. Village offers a competitive salary and work would […]
Blackademics.org/community
Published on 3 Nov 2007 at 9:32 am.
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Filed under positivity, collective action, education.
Some of you may have noticed the new Community tab, added to the site navigation. This page talks about the Blackademics workshop series that we’ve been taking into classrooms and community centers over the past several years. It may surprise some of you to know that the community workshops have been around twice as long […]
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Beyond Jena: The (Re)Birth of a Movement
Published on 1 Oct 2007 at 12:41 pm.
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Filed under collective action, education.
“No justice, no peace!” a sparkling crowd of hundreds chanted in front of Morgan State University’s Soper Library last Thursday to rally support for the Jena Six. With students clad in varying temperatures of black, the scene at Morgan mirrored scores of similar events across the country including in Jena, Louisiana, where tens of thousands […]
