By Didan Ashanta Let’s begin this little heart-to-heart with a confession. I’ll go first ? I dropped out of school. To be more specific: I dropped out of kindergarten! No, I’m not joking. I started going to school when I was 2½ years old (after being taught basic early childhood literacy skills at home) – but,…
➠ Continue ReadingEducation. It is an issue that I’m already researching, worrying about, borderline obsessing over. Because I’m raising a black boy in America, and I know that he can’t afford NOT to be educated, and educated WELL. Enter the trailer for the new documentary American Promise. It showed up on my Facebook timeline, I watched it…
➠ Continue ReadingBy Alicia of alburnet.wordpress.com “I just cannot take my kid to that school!” my cousin declared. She and her husband were working on their household budget – and private school tuition was on the chopping block. Unable to return to her work as a preschool teacher due to her MS, and facing skyrocketing medical bills, something…
➠ Continue ReadingI spotted this article on Rolling Out Magazine and it was definitely inspiring ? Check it out… If you only watched the evening news or depended on pop culture to paint a picture of young Blacks, you would probably think that the majority of Black youngsters were only ambitious about sports and music – or…
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