Arne Duncan Wants YOU as a New Recruit

Arne Duncan Wants YOU as a New Recruit

via Google Alerts - Black Boys Education by The Root (blog) on 1/31/11

In a blinked-and-you-missed-it moment of President Obama's State of the Union speech last week, while discussing the dismal education system, he encouraged ...
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Schooling Blacks in Segregationist Thinking

Schooling Blacks in Segregationist Thinking

via Google Alerts - Black Boys Education by Huffington Post (blog) on 1/31/11

The school, furthermore, separates black boys from black girls in these homerooms, a separation that last six minutes each day and 20 minutes twice a month. ...
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Education Report: New data on Oakland's black male students

*Education* Report: New data on Oakland's *black* male students

via Google Alerts - Black Boys Education by San Jose Mercury News on 1/31/11

I am an African-American male who was a product of OUSD and went on to get a BA and MA in education ... OUSD does not know how to educate black boys! ...
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Local organization focusing on education, religion for Black History Month

Education is the KEY to YOU FUTURE!

Local organization focusing on *education*, religion for *Black* History Month

via Google Alerts - Black Boys Education by Abilene Reporter-News on 1/31/11

By the 1960s, he was called black, following a speech by civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. in which "black boys and black girls" were mentioned. ...
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"The Cost of Racism"

"Come to think of it...we have a BLACK PRESIDENT...but...when was the last time we had a "BLACK ASTRONAUT"! Are we where we should be?....YOU TELL ME...DID I MISS SOMETHING?

The cost of racism

via Resist racism by resistance on 1/30/11

Part 932.

Before Dr. Ronald E. McNair was an astronaut, he was a little boy who lived in Lake City, South Carolina.  And the Lake City library did not allow African Americans to borrow books.  Nine-year-old McNair refused to leave the library and the police were called.

Now the library is being renamed after him.

McNair was the second African American astronaut in space.  He held a Ph.D. in physics from MIT and was a specialist in laser physics.  What a loss it would have been if he had never been allowed to borrow those books.