#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…
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My Experience as an Inside Out Prison Exchange Student @ Temple University
“If you don’t already know about the Inside-Out program, check it out and get involved! It’s so important that we end the separation between ‘us’ and ‘them’ – those labeled ‘prisoners,’ ‘criminals,’ ‘felons.’ It is this separation and demonization of the ‘others’ – and our failure to truly see, hear, and engage with those who…
Journal Article: Battered Women “Compelled to Crime”
Gender Entrapment Theory Melanie – The lesson Melanie learned was that “Black men live a life that is more difficult than Black women, and that part of their family’s commitment to the community was to understand the pressures on the Black man and to forgive him for not making it in the world.” The women in…
Midnight Basketball: The 1994 Federal Crime Bill…22 Years Ago
Better Shaq than Crack – Never mind that in a $33 billion crime bill, heavily tilted toward prisons, cops and death penalties, midnight basketball is a mere $40 million item. That’s 12 cents for every $100 in the bill. Never mind that Republicans, despite the elephant as party symbol, are suffering from amnesia. They forget that on…
Books: From J. Edgar Hoover’s Ghostreaders to the Misappropriation of African American Popular Culture
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. – Haruki Murakami Sometimes we need to branch out and read additional books that give us a better understanding of our history, present, and future. To keep quoting the same individuals is to be closed-minded….
Propaganda: The Media and Moral Panic that Strengthens Negative Stereotypes
“The public relations industry, which essentially runs the elections, is applying certain principles to undermine democracy which are the same as the principles that applies to undermine markets. The last thing that business wants is markets in the sense of economic theory. Take a course in economics, they tell you a market is based on…
Destroying Stereotypes of the African American Mother
Roy and Burton (2007) indicated that some Black single mothers in their sample desired traditional, mainstream gender roles for their ideal families, despite the reality that their male partners were not meeting mainstream standards for masculinity. These studies provide only limited and indirect instruction about mothers’ goals and expectations for their sons and daughters. In…
Black Male Exceptionalism: You are not going EXTINCT!!
The Black male is not going extinct. This myth needs to be dispelled and our black women need to be heard. I understand the need to provide programs and resources for our black boys and me, but you can’t invest millions on them without slighting our women and girls. The efforts you grind for, for…
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