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This is a book summary and discussion. James Herndon talks about the complex social dynamics among students. A social hierarchy based on the relative degrees of blackness, or skintone.( Copyright Free Podcast Music)Mixkit

We must bring an end to any relationship that undermines our integrity. - Susan L. Taylor

There is a recovery program for every addiction. When you commit yourself to taking action, change occurs. We only need to take the first step - Susan L. Taylor👑

Blood vessels near the skin automatically shut down. The brain and other organs cool rapidly and need very little oxygen. The heart beats very slowly, and may even stop. Basically, the person is in a state of suspended animation. - Kim Feltes

Seventy-Five years ago, Sylvia Mendez became a key figure in a battle for equal education for Mexican American students. Her community's victory would pave the way for the end of racially segregated schools across the country. - Bryan Brown

Small talk about the state of our lives today, and what we are facing 2025 and into the next four years. People are concerned especially those that are not making seven figure incomes. These are the conversations that are being had in the lounge, at lunch, at home with family, and even out at the grocery store with other fellow Americans. 💵 TBwahid👑

Once I stopped making excuses and made mothering without incident a priority, things changed.- Julie Higgins

Going driverless, we are told will be a huge gain for society in terms of safety, productivity, and finance.- Marion Charles Copyright Free music ( Coffee Jazz House)

Working Women by Laura B. Randolph Men who work all day and come home and do dinner and diaper detail are congratulated and celebrated; women are just expected to. - Laura B. Randolph, Ebony March 1995 ( Copyright Free Podcast music, Coffee House Jazz)

🤗 Hello Please bare with me while some challenges are being addressed.😊 ( Copyright Free mix kit podcast music)

A Diva without drama, Moten was the darling of Hollywood in an era when lynchings were still common. In the second story A train ride evokes memories of the writer's plain spoken mother, who left her much too soon.- Diane McKinney WhetStone ( The first story is by Joy Bennett Kinnon.)👑

In another day, another era, mature women were celebrated for their wisdom. The old-school savvy of our mothers and grandmothers was like living water to Black people. - Joy Bennett Kinnon

On a hot summer Sunday 🌞 morning Elizabeth Jennings was in her way to church and decided to use the city's public transportation system, a 24-year- old African- American teacher.

The story of a Latchkey child and the feelings that they may have as they navigate through their daily life arriving home alone everyday.

The first is a story of a little boy named Theo, who asks his mom " what if there were no black people"? What would our society be like, without their contributions to our everyday lives. The second is a list black Musicians contributions to the music world.🌍

Literary Analysis 5/5/2008 by Shaunte Huff "Make something of yourself" Symbolism in Alice Walker's "Everyday Use" The family's history is physically imprinted on their possessions, through years of everyday use.

#1"You are going to be in so much trouble when Dad gets home!" we shouted, and in response my mother pulled the drapes.Dusk approached, and as it grew colder it occurred to us that we could possibly die. - David Sedaris

I had a conversation about Ruby Bridges and trauma. It has not been that long since a once little girl went through such a historic ordeal before the world. Ruby Bridges is only 68 years old. Please let that sink in.

Every evil, he tells us comes from money. "And behind money is the Zionist Talmudic Jew." The Federal Reserve system, he tells us is a private system owned by eight banks, all of them Jewish, four of them foreign...-Raphael S. Ezekiel

Hip-hop grew out of African traditions...Sean Booker If the fifteen-year evolution of hip-hop teaches us anything is history is made in unexpected ways, unexpected people, unexpected results. Dr. Michael Eric Dyson

Innocent blood will always cry out to God Almighty for reparation.- Marie Fatayi-Williams

The CROWN ACT notes that while anti- discrimination laws protect the choice to wear an afro, afros are not the only natural presentation of Black hair.

The nation's highways were often built through the heart of urban neighborhoods. Planners steered the routes through what they termed "blighted" neighborhoods. -Rebecca Katzman

In those days, the most powerful individual in the world was the heavyweight boxing champion of the world. When the heavyweight championship was fought, millions upon millions upon millions of people listened simultaneously by their radios all across the world. - Joe Louis Barrow, son of boxer Joe Louis🌍

Also, Let's Really Reform Our Schools📝by Anita Garland Both of these stories are good listens and conversation starters. I hope you enjoy!🌞

They are trying to break the cycle of death and destruction among the young. The men show the troubled kids love and respect.- James Grady. 🌍

Breakfast in Arkansas, Sedition Trial ( The Klan, across time, has been a nesting ground for murder, whatever else it has been. Members of the Order did kill, as well as rob; properly they are jailed. The present trial for sedition, however, is troubling. The charge is odd; the government's case violates common sense. The defendants, in the end, are acquitted. - Raphael S. Ezekiel

Did you know that Ethiopians trained lions to capture the soldiers of the enemy and fought side by side with cheetahs, bees, and lions? And Marcus Garvey had a purpose, it was not the money.

"There is no doubt the finding of the report is true. The United States has evolved into a White supremacy social system. It is intended for Black people to always be in poverty, intergenerationally", Dr. Monteiro said. 🌍

No society can sustain this kind of rising inequality. The pitchforks are coming, an uprising and it's not if but when. -Barrington M. Salmon

These are just a few of the games played on us. They are harmful and, and in fact, lethal in more ways than one. If we had jobs there would be no need to sell crack and rip off. As long as they block us, high unemployment will continue. Let's begin to fight it. -Harry C. Alford 🌍

To be Woke is to see and say what has gone unseen,unspoken. We have eyes, voices. We can offer both. Oprahmag.com

Shaquanda Cotton who in 2006 was sentenced to 7 years in cofinement at a Texas Juvenile Detention Facility, following accusations that she shoved a white hall monitor in school should have been the final straw for black people all over this country. - James Clingman also BlackNews.com

Oglesby asks whites to imagine a white infant placed in a Black home in a Black neighborhood to understand the frustration Black families feel. -Zena F. Oglesby, Jr. ( executive director of the Institute for Black Parenting).🌍

The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington🌍

We must not abandon the struggle to demand that the public school curricula in America be changed to reflect an accurate interpretation of the history, culture, and contributions of African people in math, science, language arts, art and social studies. -Dr. Conrad Worrill, Ph.D🌍

Black schools are our beacon of encouragement, bastions of pride and havens of concern by teachers who sincerely want each student to be successful and will do what needs to be done to make that a reality. -James Clingman

Fear-mongering on the issue of immigration comes from a bevy of sources-from white supremacist groups to CNN. -www.BlackPressInternational.com

The silent epidemic of dropping out of school not only hurts the student, but society as well. -George E. Curry / The Education choice to home school or charter schools charter schools have experienced double-digit annual growth, there are about two-million home-schooled children in the U.S. ( Final Call,2006)

Brothers must interact where the young Brothers hang. Go to school and mentor, Go to a barbershop. Just talk to them-the young Brothers, Mr. Powell said. ( Payday Loans: These places thrive in socially and economically deprived neighborhoods. They are bloodsuckers of the poor. There is nothing to educate people on how to get out of the debt that they are in so they get deeper in the hole. -Anthony Muhammad, Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner 🌍

A few years ago, leaders in this country proposed a formalized dialogue about race and racism. While there are some organized groups meeting together to engage this very delicate and critical conversation, I think we are further behind than we were during the Civil Rights days when racism was so glaringly obvious. - M. Linda Jaramillo 🌍

When Martin became a man, he worked hard to change the laws that kept people apart. Because of Martin and others like him,the laws changed. - Walter Dean Meyers🌍

"Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days. But I could not conquer my sense of guilt, my feeling that the white men around me knew that I was changing, that I had begun to regard them differently." 🌍(Richard Wright)

This novel is about a mystery, about moving to a new house to begin a new life, and about a United States history lesson of the Underground Railroad. The house is like a character. It has hidden doors and secret passages. The community's tangled web of problems add to the plot line while we read about the memories of the enslaved people who were trying to escape to freedom. *( I have really got to buy this book.)🌍

"In the flickering light the mob swayed, paused, and began to flow toward us. In that instant there opened within me a great awareness; I knew then who I was." -Walter White📝

"God had not struck Westley dead for taking his name in vain or for lying in the temple. So I decided that maybe to save further trouble, I'd better lie, too, and say that Jesus had come, and get up and be saved."

Son of a Harlem minister, James Baldwin summarizes his life up to the age of thirty-one. He concentrates in his life's ambition into one sentence, and talks about the Negro problems in America. He said " I want to be an honest man and a good writer".

This is the story of Mr. Red Leg a masterful black man, skillful at turning white bigotry into black profits. ( The needs of a society determine its ethics, and in the Black American community ghettos the hero is that man who is offered only the crumbs from his country's table but by ingenuity and courage is able to take for himself a Lucullan feast.) - Maya Angelou

The author of this post talks about All white people being racist, and that they are taught to work hard at doing 3 things....Deny, Ignore or Spread the lies of white supremacy.

What's behind the latest attacks on teaching about race?