education Category Archives
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 […]
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Ebony Skin, Ivory Tower: Teen Prodigy Makes Ivy League History
Published on 7 Sep 2007 at 2:14 am.
37 Comments.
Filed under positivity, academia, women's issues/feminism, black image, education.
Just a quick praise report, as my Grandmother calls them. A young sister by the name of Brittney Exline has recently become the youngest child ever to be accepted into an Ivy League school. Exline, a native of Colorado Springs will be majoring in Political Science and Chemical Engineering at the prestigious University of Pennsylvania […]
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Making Black Girls “Ladylike”
Published on 23 Aug 2007 at 7:08 pm.
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Filed under racism, women's issues/feminism, sexuality, racial rhetoric, education.
This is an article I wrote that is also published over at Wiretap Magazine; Find more stuff @ Kameelahwrites
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I have been convinced that many large public schools function like factory systems. You pop in one student and with the appropriate manipulations, the necessary conveyor belt rides and some pedagogical alchemy and you get the school […]
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via RaceWire: The look and language of UNICEF’s Africa’s campaign
Published on 5 Aug 2007 at 12:10 am.
17 Comments.
Filed under racism, black image, racial rhetoric, Africa, education.
Thought ya’ll might enjoy this one…
via RaceWire:
Tip to Color of Change for forwarding this one. Cross-posted from Black Women in Europe.
This is an actual ad-campaign by UNICEF Germany!This campaign is “blackfacing” white children with mud to pose as “uneducated africans.”
The headline translates “This Ad-campaign developed pro bono by the agency Jung von Matt/Alster shows four […]
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Will $100 Laptop Close the Digital Divide?
Published on 23 Jul 2007 at 5:28 pm.
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Filed under news/politics, education, technology.
Finally, 5 years after the idea was proposed, the “$100 Laptop” (also called the XO Laptop) is in its final stages. Manufacturers are on the verge of plunging into mass production for at least 3 million Cheaptops, which ex-secretary general of the UN Kofi Annan believes “will open up new fronts” for children’s education in […]
