A Call to Parents Seeking Excellence
These are the pumps I’m rocking today. They hurt my feet. But they’re cute and I’m rocking them for a good cause,National Women and Girls HIV/Aids Awareness Day. Not only have I committed to talk about HIV/AIDS prevention to everyone I know, I am a part of a large group of bloggers who are flooding [...]
If you ever need the “N Word” explained, I proudly offer you this…Please view and Share!! If you cannot view this video here, click HERE. CLick title for full article
Good Hair, the new Chris Rock Michael-Moore-styled expose about the Black Hair industry will be in movie theaters soon. I have mixed feelings. Do we want the secrets of our historic hair drama to be exposed? Do we want to air the dirty laundry of our habitual, almost institutional rejection of our natural selves, our [...]
Toni was excited to swim at the new public pool. At twelve, she was allowed to walk the two miles in the hot summer sun to the new swimming hole. She paid her money and changed into her suit in the locker room and took a shower, in accordance with pool rules. She walked out [...]
Children do not come with instructions. Thank goodness Search Institute offers some. For parents, life can be complicated. The job of being a parent can be exhausting, frustrating and confusing. So when someone gives you a road map to help you along your journey, you ought to take it and use it, right? This is [...]
I very recently came across Marian Wright Edelman’s book, The Measure of Our Success, while reorganizing my bookshelves at home. I had forgotten this treasure that I had read some years ago. When I found it, I sat down and re-read it on the spot. It is a short book, just shy of 100 pages. [...]
Isn’t it time for a Black Parenting Movement? Isn’t time that we parents of African-American children step-up and out into the open? Isn’t it time to think about what is best—best for our kids—best for our families– not just how to get by—but how to provide and demand the best? I’m not talking about the [...]
Rick Badie’s article, “What is so ‘unblack’ about being intelligent?” sure struck a chord with readers who are dismayed about the peer pressure among black youth to avoid the pursuit of academic excellence in order to “keep it real” or “stay black”. The article and all of the comments that it generated are worthy reading. [...]
Marian Wright Edelman at HuffPost
