Eight HBCUs Get Loan Relief From the U.S. Department of Education – The HBCU Capital Finance program allowed colleges and universities to take out low-interest loans to restore building and facilities on their campuses. But due to the 2008-09 recession and declining enrollments at some HBCUs, many institutions have had difficulty making payments on their loans….
Racial Capitalism
Great article from #NancyLeong on racial capitalism #RacialCapitalism: “Racial capitalism explains why white people are so keen to tell you about their black friends. It explains why white people are so anxious to tell you about the diverse neighborhood they live in. And, more generally, it explains why people have a powerful incentive to display…
Blacks were not Cowards during Slavery
“His mistake is also a thorough misrepresentation of the fortitude — the mental toughness and will to survive — required to survive slavery, individually and collectively, for centuries.” – By Blair L.M. Kelley I’m not understanding how people can say, “slaves were cowards” or what #Kanye said, about how “slaves were enslaved as if it were a…
Rethinking Work-Life Balance for Women of Color – And how white women got it in the first place…by #KimberlyAllers
This article spoke to me in all types of ways. This is true gospel and how women of color have been framed and feeling for years. This is a must read!!! Rethinking Work-Life Balance for Women of Color And how white women got it in the first place by Kimberly Seal Allers “White…
November – December 2017: African American Mentions, News, and Articles of Interest
#BlackBoyJoy: Hazim Hardeman, 1st Rhodes Scholar from Temple University. Hardeman grew up at 23rd and Diamond, just blocks from Temple’s campus. The university always seemed like “another world.” He dreamed of crossing the barrier. Link to Article: http://www.philly.com/philly/education/temple-gets-its-first-rhodes-scholar-a-north-philly-kid-20171119.html #BlackGirlMagic: Candice Marshall – one of 11 students in the industrial and computational mathematics program at Morgan State University in…
My Perfectly Flawed African American Mother
My mother died the day before my birthday in 2014. Not a great way to look forward to a birthday celebration, right?? My birthday is exactly one month from now and her death will be three years on the 24th of July. I am a poet, spoken word artist, and definitely a writer on many…
Mary McLeod Bethune: Bethune-Cookman University and her other Legacies
“The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy or girl without a chance to prove his worth.” ― Mary McLeod Bethune “I was born and reared in the South and no southerner has greater love for the land of his…
BlackGirlChronicles: What is…LOVE?
What is…LOVE??? My daughter asked me this question over a week ago. What was my definition of love? Was I ever in love? I couldn’t give her an honest answer as I looked back at my life. Looking back on my past relationships, I realized that I never loved them like love is “supposed” to…
GetOutMovie: Black Women Have Always Had Your BACK!!!!
Black Women have always had Black Men’s BACK First let me say, I loved the movie “Get Out.” It was very entertaining, funny, scary, and kept me wanting more after it was over. I am not going to do a movie review because I just don’t do those things. What I like to do…
Audre Lorde: Revolution is not a One Time Event
My anger has meant pain to me but it has also meant survival, and before I give it up I’m going to be sure that there is something at least as powerful to replace it on the road to clarity. – Audre Lorde Audre Geraldine Lorde 1934 – 1992 Audre Lorde was born in New…
America’s Lies: I Am Not Your NEGRO
Last Friday (February 3, 2017), I was privileged to watch the documentary called, I am not your Negro featuring James Baldwin and directed by Raoul Peck. Baldwin was just getting into a new book titled, Remember This House in 1979 on the lives and assassinations of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr….
LEADers on Inequality, Race, Ethnic Politics, and African American History
Special treat for African American History Month Netflix will stream 22 hard to find films from Black Cinema’s Earliest Pioneers. In 2015, Kino Lorber released a treasure trove from American history in a DVD box set, Pioneers of African-American Cinema. Hours upon hours of feature-length and short films spanning the 1910s to the 1940s were…
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