on Wednesday, February 1, 2012 at Chicago State University Click Here to purchase a paperback copy of The New Jim Crow. Click Here to view a 25 minute video of Michelle Alexander speaking on Democracy Now about The New Jim Crow. Click Here to hear a segment of Michelle Alexander on National Public Radio...
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Finland’s teaching methods are catching on, including in Farmington. Photo by Elizabeth Flores, Star Tribune By HERÓN MÁRQUEZ ESTRADA January 21, 2012 Before a math test, students in Anne Shadrick’s third-grade class are encouraged to pop a stick of gum into their mouths and chew. When Shadrick teaches her two dozen students a list...
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Since 2008, more than 530 youth have been killed in Chicago with nearly 80 percent of the homicides occurring in 22 African-American or Latino community areas on the city’s South, Southwest and West sides. By Kari Lydersen and Carlos Javier Ortiz January 25, 2012 “Pour out your heart like water For the lives of...
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January 15, 2012 lpitts@MiamiHerald.com Leonard Pitts, Jr. I have something for you. In June of 2010, I wrote in this space about a book, The New Jim Crow, by Michelle Alexander, which I called a “troubling and profoundly necessary” work. Alexander promulgated an explosive argument. Namely, that the so-called “War on Drugs” amounts to a war on...
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Chicago State University Wednesday, January 25, 2012 6:00 pm (Doors Open at 5:00 pm) Jacoby Dickens Center 9500 South on King Drive Chicago, Illinois
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By Bernice Yeung January 20, 2012
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The five stages of the Umar Abdullah-Johnson theory of Black Male Alienation are 1) Miseducation 2) Psychotropic Medication 3) Mass Incarceration 4) Frustration/Irritation 5) Extermination The Psycho-Academic War Against Black Boys “DRUGS & JAILS WHEN ALL ELSE FAILS”
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By Corilyn Shropshire and Cheryl V. Jackson January 24, 2012 Anjelica Pickett, 17, has been searching for a job for about a year.
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January 24, 2012 MILWAUKEE – Only about 45-percent of working age black men in Metro Milwaukee had jobs in 2010. That’s according to a study of census data by UW-Milwaukee.
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There are some Black American, African and Caribbean parents who will do anything to educate and protect their children. Anything! And in fact, they know that this is the only way that their children will ever be successfully educated in America. We call those Black American, African and Caribbean parents, “Lion Mothers and Fathers”. They are like...
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