You’d think that leaving high school and stepping out into the real word would be easy.
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Category: education
From Blackface to Blackfishing
“We can appreciate their culture without having to do or wear their hairstyles, or trying to act or be a certain way that we’re not.”
The Hate U Give Might Just Be 2018’s Best Movie
This movie, one with fictional characters and made up neighborhoods, is real. We have all heard of stories like this. We’ve seen them on the news and we’ve seen it for ourselves.
“To Kill A Mockingbird” Removed From School Reading List
To Kill A Mockingbird talks about things that will indeed make you uncomfortable–it will also make you think.
Black History ‘Erryday’: Happy 64th Birthday Dr. Julianne Malveaux
Ph.D. from M.I.T.
LGBT Lives Matter: It’s our Lives, sans an Agenda
And yes words matter, but the meaning behind the words is that LGBT folks are other and not worthy of having a life as straight (read normal) folks do.
Black History ‘Erryday’: Happy 67th Birthday Henry Louis Gates
Discovered the first books by black writers.
Happy Birthday Margaret Sanger (R.I.P.)
In 1916 opened the first birth control clinic in the U.S. Organized the first birth control clinic staffed by all women docs. Established a clinic in Harlem with an all black advisory board which included W.E.B. DuBois.
