Being a Black Man at the Corner of Progress and Peril is a collection of news articles by the staff at the Washington Post. After reading The Bond, Disintegration and Honky, picking up this book followed suit with my current fascination with race; in particular Black men and how they are percieved by not...
The first of the month is a busy time for all people. This is when bills are due and things are needed to be done. Parents and unemployed people receive their WIC and EBT, which is government assistance. For whatever reason that people qualify for these state benefits, the result it has on other people can...
Disintegration written by Eugene Robinson (Washington Post) is a carefully drawn discussion on Black America in the 21st century. Actually, the book is an analysis of all Black people in the post civil rights era. While race in America remains an unapproachable subject that is often balanced on the razor’s edge, Robinson’s definition of...
Redefining the Labyrinth was a project I began while teaching at a local Memphis High School. With the current uproar about all that is wrong in the Memphis City Schools, I thought it would be interesting to post the work generated by four high school seniors, who are products of a system that everyone...