“Emmett Louis Till, my only son, my only child, was kidnapped, tortured, and murdered at the hand of white racists on August 28, 1955. That was so many years ago, yet it seems like only yesterday to a mother who needs no reminders. After all, every shattered piece of my heart has its own special […]
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How The KKK Helped Prevent Michael Jordan & Patrick Ewing From Being College Teammates
“Patrick Ewing, a seven-foot Jamaican from Boston, the most heralded recruit in that year’s senior class, met Jordan for the first time that weekend in October when they made their official visit to the Carolina campus… Years later, the center would reveal that he was seriously considering playing for Dean Smith until he returned to […]
Read the rest of this entry »Definitions Better Than Webster’s: Interrogation
Interrogation: “The goal of any interrogation, by definition, is to elicit a confession from a guilty party, not to investigate the truth of a denial. The common tactics used to gain confessions are based on the idea that only guilty people are interrogated in the first place…Once they decide they are speaking with a guilty […]
Read the rest of this entry »Definitions Better Than Webster’s: Self-Sabotage
SELF-SABOTAGE: “Self-sabotage takes many forms, such as quitting school, taking low-paying jobs, choosing a spouse who abuses you physically or verbally, spending more than you make, committing slow suicide with tobacco, alcohol, or other drugs, getting involved in crime, working yourself to illness or death, self-starvation, self-inflicting wounds, running away, dropping out, or engaging in […]
Read the rest of this entry »Black History Fact Of The Day: Henry Boyd
“…Henry Boyd. After buying himself in Kentucky, he went to Cincinnati to start life as a free man. There he encountered so much prejudice against Negro labor that he could not find employment at his trade of cabinet-making. A new thought came to him, however, and in this way he solved his own problem. Boyd […]
Read the rest of this entry »Black History Fact Of The Day: James Forman & Lorraine Hansberry
James Forman and Lorraine Hansberry attended the same high school, Englewood High School in Chicago. In his autobiography, James Forman discusses how he would often engage in school debates that Lorraine Hansberry also participated in. He recounts: “Every Friday in division [a class where the sophomores and juniors were combined for twenty minutes a day], […]
Read the rest of this entry »Book Excerpt Of The Week: “The Tipping Point” By: Malcolm Gladwell
“Here’s another example of the subtleties of persuasion. A large group of students were recruited for what they were told was a market research study by a company making high-tech headphones. They were each given a headset and told that the company wanted to test to see how well they worked when the listener was […]
Read the rest of this entry »Black History Fact Of The Day: George Washington Carver Jr.
“George Washington Carver was born in Diamond Groove, Missouri, in 1864. He worked his way through Simpson and Iowa State colleges and completed his masters degree. He accepted a position with Iowa University in Iowa City, the first African American to do so. He received a letter from Booker T. Washington asking to join him […]
Read the rest of this entry »Black History Fact Of The Day: George Washington & Slavery
“George Washington was a third-generation slaveholder, who with Martha owned more than three hundred slaves. He prized them particularly; as a signal of wealth in his world, such property exceeded gold and real estate. he had once wrote to a fellow planter urging that he send him strong slaves in good health who were not […]
Read the rest of this entry »The “Keep Them In Debt” Game
“‘Listen,’ I said softly, ‘I know it’s hard for you to make sense of all this craziness around here, but trust me, there’s a method to my madness, especially when it comes to spending. It’s important to keep these guys chasing the dream. And it’s even more important to keep them broke.’ I gestured over […]
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