ReUNION: Education-Arts-Heritage

ReUNION Narrative: LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE Jan. 16-March 5 Lesson 4

01/22/2013 - 14:36

The Underground Railroad made it possible for Lewis H. Latimer to let his light shine.

The inventor's granddaughter Dr. Winifred Latimer Norman took it upon herself to insure that the complete history of Latimer is available.

31 Ways 31 Days for New York City

11/23/2012 - 00:21

During National Black Business Month in August, begin by making a commitment that you will prepare your own list to visit at least one black-owned business each day of the month because your traffic brings more revenue and sorely needed new jobs. We offer these suggestions for local options on the nationwide 31 Ways 31 Days list. Black Money New York City will provide check-in codes at some of the locations listed so new visitors can check in with their cell phones to register their support of black-owned businesses.

Washington, Cheadle team in Flight Nov. 2

10/29/2012 - 01:15

HOLLYWOOD -- Academy Award® winner, Denzel Washington stars as Whip Whitaker, a seasoned airline pilot, who miraculously crash lands his plane after a mid-air catastrophe, saving nearly every soul on board.

RZA tackles script, directing and starring in Man with an Iron Fist

10/29/2012 - 00:28

HOLLYWOOD -- Making his debut as a big-screen director and leading man, RZA—alongside a stellar international cast led by Russell Crowe and Lucy Liu—tells the epic story of warriors, assassins and a lone outsider hero in nineteenth-century China who must unite to destroy the clan traitor who would destroy them all.

Beyond the intellectual poverty of knowledge in teacher learning and curriculum

04/30/2013 - 20:53

Beyond the Intellectual Poverty of Knowledge in Teacher Learning & Curriculum: Black Studies & San Francisco’s Black Heritage

Presidential Session, Tuesday, April 30, 2013 Continental Room 4, Hilton San Francisco; American Educational Research Association Division F History and Historiography

Panelists: Dr. Joyce King, Benjamin E. Mays Chair of Urban Teaching and Learning, Georgia State University;

Dr. Kenneth Monteiro, Dean of Ethnic Studies, San Francisco State University

James Taylor, Vice President, California Alliance of African-American Educators

John William Templeton, Executive Producer, ReUNION: Education-Arts-Heritage

Personal Authenticity and Perceived Chance of Success

John WIlliam Templeton

In the wildly popular Harry Potter series, the pre-teen protagonists become expert in magic and metaphysics, successfully joust with supernatural beings and outsmart all the adults they encounter.

The saga demonstrates the workings of a set of pedagological phenomena described by Sylvia Wynter, the Stanford language professor, in an analysis of the Houghton-Mifflin kindergarten-eighth grade textbook series for California in the late 1980s.

Reseeding Mali's future

04/26/2013 - 16:53

Dr. Hassimi O. Maiga, distinguished research professor emeritus at the University of Bamako, spoke on behalf of FoodFirst's drive to provide seeds and water pumps to the farmers of Mali so that they can revive the millennium-long agriculture this spring. Dignitaries included Drs. Wade Nobles, Oba T'Shaka and Aguibou Yansane of San Francisco State University, Eric Holt-Gimenez, executive director of Food First, and board chair Dr. Joyce King along with Dr. Petroniha Beatriz Goncalves e Silva, professor at the Federal University of San Carlos in Brazil.

Bringing tourism into San Francisco's black community

03/12/2013 - 19:49

Black Food Month activities include the opening of the African-American Tourism Welcome Center serving San Francisco and the Bay Area on March 6, 2013 at Bumzy's Chocolate Chip Cookies, 1460 Fillmore St. with top tourism officials from the world's favorite city, learning about the centennial of the newspaper article which brought jazz into the global lexicon.

ReUNION Narrative: From Faith to Freedom Jan. 16-March 5 The Land of Esteban Gomez

01/18/2013 - 21:42

ReUNION Narrative: From Faith to Freedom Jan. 16-March 5, 2013 4th Lesson

According to the National Park Service, Esteban Gomez, a sailor of African and Portuguese descent, was the second European explorer to visit what was to become New York City-- in 1524.

Having sailed with Magellan, Gomes was such a celebrity that the area he reached--attempting to find the Northwest Passage to India-- was described on a map as The Land of Esteban Gomes, now known as New England.

ReUNION Narrative: LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE Jan. 16-March 5 Lesson 3

01/18/2013 - 12:59

ReUNION Narrative: LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE Jan. 16 - March 5, 2013

ReUNION Narrative From Faith to Freedom Jan. 16-March 5 Lesson 3

01/18/2013 - 12:37

ReUNION Narrative: From Faith to Freedom Jan. 16-March 5, 2013 Lesson 3

Two documents published in Spain in the early 1500s offered drastically different paths for the future. The 1516 Memorial by Bartolome de las Casas recommended bringing Africans as slaves to work in the encomiendas of the Caribbean and the Americas, being established by Spanish invaders.

ReUNION Narrative: From Faith to Freedom, Lesson 2

01/17/2013 - 18:01

ReUNION Narrative: From Faith to Freedom Jan. 16 - March 5, 2013, Lesson 2

ReUNION Narrative: From Faith to Freedom, Lesson 2

01/17/2013 - 18:01

ReUNION Narrative: From Faith to Freedom Jan. 16 - March 5, 2013, Lesson 2

ReUNION Narrative: LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE, Lesson 2

01/17/2013 - 15:59

ReUNION Narrative: LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE, Jan. 16-March 5, Lesson 2

Throughout human history, controlling light had proven elusive until Thomas Edison retained Lewis Latimer. When Latimer created a durable and easily manufacturable carbon filament, he was awarded a patent for the "Incandescent Electric Light Bulb with Carbon Filament." Light from those bulbs spread in random directions at varying frequencies.

By the time Dr. Robert Lawrence Thornton received his doctorate from Stanford in 1983, scientists had learned how to focus light to generate a beam of waves at the same frequency, known as a laser.

Like Latimer, Thornton made an exponential improvement by discovering how to generate more than one laser from a single semiconductor chip.

Success Secrets, Blackmoney, Jazz Management define diversity dividend

12/02/2012 - 17:09

SAN JOSE -- When the new editor of the San Jose Business Journal walked into a breakfast at the San Jose Athletic Club in 1987, he was surprised that four of the dozen technology business leaders welcoming him were African-American.

"They were pretty shocked that I was black too," recalls the author of Success Secrets of Black Executives (ASPIRE SAN FRANCISCO), first African-American to edit a business newspaper.

John William Templeton soon organized a group called the Black Executive Forum, where one could only gain admittance with budget authority in excess of $10 million. More than 200 eventually showed up for the monthly meetings.

I Belong in Math, Science

05/06/2013 - 04:02

SUNNYVALE -- I Belong: Culturally-Responsive Interventions for Math Science Instruction gives educators the tools to address the low participation rates of African-American students in advanced math and science courses from June 12-14, 2013 with exercises in the Computer History Museum and Tech Museum of Innovation. Registration includes the Queen Calafia classroom kit of seven culturally-responsive books. A workshop schedule includes:

9 a.m. CSI/ESPN exercise Wonder why students can remember everything in the latest police procedural or break down the injury status of their favorite player? Participants will format a CSI episode the way it would be taught in school.

9:30 a.m. The chemistry and neurology of psycho-social interventions The chemical responses to stimuli and how classroom environments affect positively or negatively students. What happens when learned helplessness sets in. Anatomy of “Anti-Knowing”

Black Theatre Now

ReUNION Narrative: LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE Jan. 16-March 5 Lesson 4

31 Ways 31 Days for New York City

Washington, Cheadle team in Flight Nov. 2

RZA tackles script, directing and starring in Man with an Iron Fist

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Beyond the intellectual poverty of knowledge in teacher learning and curriculum

Reseeding Mali's future

Bringing tourism into San Francisco's black community

ReUNION Narrative: From Faith to Freedom Jan. 16-March 5 The Land of Esteban Gomez

ReUNION Narrative: LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE Jan. 16-March 5 Lesson 3

ReUNION Narrative From Faith to Freedom Jan. 16-March 5 Lesson 3

ReUNION Narrative: From Faith to Freedom, Lesson 2

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Say Grace simplifies black cuisine

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