February 2012
23 posts
Study: How Young Black Men Succeed in Higher Ed →
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A new study from the University of Pennsylvania looks at the factors that help young black men succeed in an education system that has historically failed them.
In a report based on the National Black Male College Achievement Study — the largest-ever qualitative research study of black undergraduate men — study author Shaun Harper, an associate professor of higher ed...
Study confirms dark-skinned women get longer... →
Light-skinned women were sentenced to an average of 12 percent less time than their darker-skinned peers, and served an average of 11 percent less time in jail, the study found. The researchers used similar crimes to compare sentences, so that they could generate the most accurate, relevant results.
The study, called “The Impact of Light Skin on Prison Time for Black Female Offenders,” is part...
“It seems to me that it is commonly accepted that there is no such thing as a...”
– Nichole Black (@IamNicholeBlack)
Khader Adnan - Death or Freedom, Death for Freedom
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Khader Adnan will die, soon. In doing so he will be liberated from his oppressors and inspire all of us. He is heroically embarking on his sixty-third day of hunger strike. The idea of going without food for sixty-three hours is a testing one, sixty-three days is incomprehensible. Khader Adnan’s steely resolve is unbreakable, death or freedom, death for freedom.
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“Some may blackly (angrily) accuse me of trying to blacken (defame) the English...”
– Robert B. Moore, “Racist Stereotyping in the English Language” (via onehundreddollars)
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“We need anti-rape campaigns that target young men and boys. Campaigns that...”
– Excellent article in Ebony Magazine, ‘Stop Telling Women How Not To Get Raped’
http://www.ebony.com/news-views/stop-telling-women-how-to-not-get-raped
