Resources for understanding education, recreation and how to guide black youth into healthy productive experiences. The information needed to hold schools accountable for the student learning environment for close to 17 million black students and the wise use of limited instructional funding.
01/17/2012 - 19:28
WASHINGTON -- Funds which can provide math and science teachers and labs for students who are the intended target of federal education aid are being spent away from those students by hard-pressed school districts, an expert on educational finance equity told Innovation & Equity 2012.
01/12/2012 - 02:00
PHILADELPHIA -- An expert in educational financing suggests that parents learn how to follow the money that goes to schools with a heavy concentration of black youth.
12/26/2011 - 21:08
Dr. Maulana Karenga
12/17/2011 - 20:46
BROOKLYN -- Black Inventors, Crafting Over 200 Years of Success, identifies 15,000 patents by black
inventors from over seventy countries.
12/14/2011 - 18:51
Have you ever heard of Francis Johnson? If not, you must take a tour of the African-American historic landmarks throughout the cobblestone streets of Philadelphia, in addition to the interpretation inside the Independence National Park.
12/13/2011 - 06:18
PHILADELPHIA -- Rear Adm. John King told a group of teenagers the U.S. Navy would reach into their classrooms to prepare them for high technology careers, during a holiday party for the MESA program at Temple University.
12/04/2011 - 14:26
WASHINGTON -- The 1510 Spanish epic "Las Serges de Esplandian" explains the global ardor for Queen Califia, the black warrior queen who ruled the mythical island of California, by noting that there was no concept of race. (see Our Roots Run Deep: the Black Experience in California, Vols. 1-4, ASPIRE SAN FRANCISCO)
10/22/2011 - 16:27
WASHINGTON -- Thousands of America's top communicators live by a simple standard -- what would Professor Yette do or say.
10/18/2011 - 22:05
SAN FRANCISCO -- The ingredient of the civil rights struggle usually overlooked by historians is the financing of activism.
10/13/2011 - 17:07
LOS ANGELES --Education Sec. Arne Duncan announced the successful resolution of the first proactive civil rights enforcement action taken by the Department of Education under the Obama Administration.
10/05/2011 - 19:09
SAN FRANCISCO -- Ask world class scientists like Philip Emeagwali the key to their success and they'll tell you a story like this: While living in a Biafran refugee camp in the midst of Nigeria's civil war, his father drilled his multiplication tables every night.
10/04/2011 - 02:08
SAN FRANCISCO -- Commissioner Kim-Shree Maufas related, "I know the power of mentors. There was a person who changed my life and I can point to that encounter."
10/03/2011 - 03:33
SAN FRANCISCO -- A national campaign to increase black student participation in math and science courses visits the curriculum committee of San Francisco Unified School District on Monday at 4 p.m.
10/02/2011 - 17:38
RICHMOND -- Harriet Tubman is the focal point for the Association for the Study of African-American Life and History's review of African-Americans and the Civil War Wednesday during its 96th annual conference.
09/29/2011 - 14:09
The University of Detroit Mercy will be hosting a conference entitled "Celebrating the River at Midnight -- The Fluid Frontier: Slavery, War, Freedom, and the Underground Railroad" on October 19-21, 2011, in the Fountain Lounge of the Student Center on the University's McNichols Campus, 4001 W. McNichols Rd, Detroit.
09/25/2011 - 21:39
OAKLAND -- The long-overlooked importance of African-American engineer and innovator Gerald A. Lawson is the subject of A Great Day in Gaming: From Queens to Silicon Valley: The Gerald A. Lawson Story, a documentary being screened Saturday, Oct. 8 at 1 p.m. at the African-American Museum and Library in Oakland, 654 14th St.
09/21/2011 - 04:42
ATLANTA -- Dr. Hassimi O. Maiga keynotes the Nile Valley II Conference at Woodruff Library with a discussion of the significance of ancient manuscripts from West Africa.
09/07/2011 - 02:39
SAN FRANCISCO -- The award-winning ASCAP composer-arranger-pianist Jacqueline Butler Hairston previews her Carnegie Hall concert with a 50-voice choir for the 18th AfroSolo Arts Festival on Sunday, Sept. 25 at 4 p.m. in the African-American Art and Culture Complex, 762 Fulton St.
08/19/2011 - 21:02
WASHINGTON -- It is appropriate that Berry Gordy is one of the chairs of the dedication of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
08/19/2011 - 18:00
WASHINGTON -- Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Berry Gordy, Jr., George Lucas, Jamie Foxx and Clarence Avant will serve as celebrity co-chairs for the Dedication of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial in Washington, D.C.
08/12/2011 - 01:02
"For too long we've put the spotlight on entertainment," says Will.i.Am, who has put up his own money to put science in the forefront for young people.
08/09/2011 - 00:37
SAN FRANCISCO -- ReUnion: Education-Arts-Heritage fills a glaring need for wholesome, scientifically-based and effective instructional television for African-American students.
08/08/2011 - 05:25
DURHAM -- Some incoming North Carolina Central University freshmen who traded their final weeks of leisure for a summer of hard work were cited for their hands-on research in science, math and techn
08/08/2011 - 04:27
WASHINGTON D.C. – Dr.
08/08/2011 - 02:56
AUSTIN, TX -- During a recent conference held in Atlanta, Georgia, Sikhongi Solomon Phungwayo captured first place in the chemistry category during the 68th Annual Joint Meeting of Beta Kappa Chi
