“If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don’t do that, you are wasting your time on this earth.” -Roberto Clemente Tweet
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TODAY IS BUY BLACK FRIDAY
PLEASE PASS THIS ON! (EACH ONE TEACH ONE OR TWO!) THIS IS PHASE ONE ON HOW WE CAN HELP TO STRENGTHEN & EMPOWER OUR COMMUNITY: The 2008 not guilty verdict in the Sean Bell case evoked outrage, emotion, and debate. It is not an anomaly that the police officers involved in the Sean Bell slaying […]
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“Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.” -Albert Schweitzer Tweet
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Euphemia Hayes was a mathematician and educator. She was the first African-American woman to gain a PhD in mathematics. She earned her doctorate in 1943 from the Catholic University of America. Euphemia Hayes also established the math department at Miners Teacher’s College. Tweet
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“One man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing the wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole.” -Mahatma Gandhi Tweet
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“Prior to the Transatlantic slave trade, Africans were held in high esteem internationally. Then, in answer to the critics who labeled the slave trade as barbaric, European scholars began to develop “scientific” theories of black inferiority. Books were written to support these theories, which were taught in European and American universities… The history of African […]
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PLEASE PASS THIS ON! (EACH ONE TEACH ONE OR TWO!) THIS IS PHASE ONE ON HOW WE CAN HELP TO STRENGTHEN & EMPOWER OUR COMMUNITY: The 2008 not guilty verdict in the Sean Bell case evoked outrage, emotion, and debate. It is not an anomaly that the police officers involved in the Sean Bell slaying […]
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“If you want to know the end, look at the beginning.” -African Proverb Tweet
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“New York was a place of extreme wealth and dire poverty, of glittering Manhattan financial centers and teeming slums. It was the job of the NYPD to make sure the two universes did not overlap. There were no Jim Crow segregation laws in Mew York, as there still were in the South, but unofficial segregation […]
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Nathan Hare was the first director of a Black Studies program at a university. He implemented this program at San Francisco State University in 1968. During his tenure as an educator, he also taught at Howard University. His students included Stokely Carmichael and Claude Brown, the author of “Manchild In The Promised Land.” Tweet
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