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Montessori: An Alternative Education for Black Children?
Feb. 21 | Securing the next generation of Black folks will have to mean raising children that can think outside of the boxes imposed upon the identities and trajectories of Black people. At a recent meeting of Black creative minds held in Akron (Ohio), the conversation...
Remarks on “Family” in the Third World
Feb. 16 | "Modern" Family? Capitalism and western modernity (colonialism) has produced a rupture in world history, particularly the “third world” precisely for the reason that it has re-arranged the structure of relationships and kinship among...
It’s Black History Month and the Sankofa Bird Speaks
Feb. 14 | History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is also a compass that people use to find themselves on the map of human geography. History tells a people where they’ve been and what they’ve been; where...
The Crime of Reporting Crime
Feb. 7 | Recently in the media industry various outlets and magazines including CNN and other outlets compiled a list of the most dangerous cities in the world; Detroit was on the list. This is an example of how shallow and worthless journalism, reporting and...
Can Black Youth Reject American Consumerism to Save Themselves?
Feb. 2 | “I’d open every cell in Attica—send ‘em to Africa.” -Nas “If I Ruled the World” Last week Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow, spoke at Rankin Chapel about the need for Black students to reject American...
New Qualitative Indices for Urban America
Jan. 31 | White Papers on Black Lives? One of the discouraging realities of modern day life in our nation is the constant theme of publishing data and statistics on the demographics of urban life from the lens and perspectives of those who lack depth, scope and...
Black Students in Peril
Jan. 25 | The revelation of systemic disproportional suspensions of black students in our nation’s school districts is disturbing and troubling on a number of layers beyond and above educational concerns. One wonders if this same horrid disparity exists...
When Ghettos Become Verbs and We Concede Our “Wrongness of Being”
Jan. 17 | …the structure of Platonic discourse itself forced those who used it to accept a particular concept of social order. … In the very syntax of our speech as we learn the English language, the justification of our ‘inferiority’ is embedded,...
Can Blacks Criticize Barack Obama?
Jan. 9 | It is ironical that these African Americans chose a celebration of Martin Luther Jr. to blackball and silence Tavis Smiley because of his political critique of a Black leader who like all other leaders should be held accountable for his deeds and policies....
