by Lauren Camera | Nov 10, 2017 | Articles
The achievement gap between white students and black students has barely narrowed over the last 50 years, despite nearly a half century of supposed progress in race relations and an increased emphasis on closing such academic discrepancies between groups of students....
by Parent4Success | Nov 10, 2017 | Articles
Teenage anger can be frightening. Parents find toddler tantrums hard enough to deal with, but when their child becomes taller than they are, and throws their weight around it is time for some serious thought into how to manage the situation. It may be useful to...
by Angela J. Davis & Kristin Henning | Nov 10, 2017 | Articles
Mistrust and alienation between black men and the police have become so entrenched that we need radical, sweeping change. The collective experience of black men in the criminal justice system is sobering. African Americans are 2.5 times more likely to be arrested than...
by David Yi | Nov 10, 2017 | Articles
Black tax. It’s something that James Burge has been paying ever since he entered the workforce. A notion that the 27-year old says he’s been aware of even before entering corporate America. “Black people have to work and perform a regular task twice as well as white...
by Mike Cassidy | Nov 10, 2017 | Articles
If blacks and whites were similar in all (measurable) ways but race, black unemployment would still be about 5 percentage points higher. As protests continue to rage this morning over the deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson and Eric Garner in New York—and the...
by Charles S. Corprew, III | Nov 10, 2017 | Articles
School is often challenging and frustrating for African American males. Too often, they fall behind their peers, get poor grades, and fail to take advanced courses – or even graduate from high school. They are also more likely to be expelled or disciplined for various...
