If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you to go on in spite of all. And so today I still have a dream.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The NY Times reports on a fascinating new study showing that Obama’s election has improved the test scores of African Americans, at least in this one very small study which has yet to undergo peer-review:
Now researchers have documented what they call an Obama effect, showing that a performance gap between African-Americans and whites on a [...]
Yes we can.
- Barack Obama
Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change—it can not only move us, it makes us move.
- Ossie Davis
Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.
- George Washington Carver
Background
I met Chris when he was in middle school, I was in junior high school and his siblings were in high school. Yes, I grew up with Chris and know his family very well. Chris is the youngest of three siblings–the oldest is a boy and the middle child is a girl. Chris’s family is [...]
I’m not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court. If they took the idea that they could escape poverty through education, I think it would make a more basic and long-lasting change in the way things happen. What we [...]
United States attorney general Eric Holder definitely speaks from his heart regarding the race relations among Americans in this recent speech. Listen carefully because Eric is definitely sharing bits of his personal history, not just African Americans. Check out this video in honor of Black History month.
Thanks for sharing Sudi!
How’s it hangin’?!
I’m currently on a mini vacation of sorts in Atlanta, Georgia. I’m checking out the sights if you will.
Besides the sistas, one thing stood out to me a lot down here. There’s a particular color that a lot of dudes wear down here that I don’t see a lot of in Cincinnati. I’ve [...]
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.
- Pearl Bailey