Taking the SAT is an American rite of passage. Along with the increasingly popular ACT, the SAT is critical in identifying student readiness for college and as an important gateway to higher education. Yet despite efforts to equalize academic opportunity, large racial gaps in SAT scores persist.
Think of The Avengers, the comic series from American publisher Marvel about a motley crew of superheroes who come together to protect the world from the forces of evil. Now, imagine if back in the 1960s, creators Jack Kirby and Stan Lee had found inspiration for The Avengers in Yoruba mythology. Instead of Iron Man, we’d have the warrior Oxaguiã. Taking the place of the blue-eyed, blonde-haired Norse god Thor would be the equally strong and black-skinned Xangô, the ruler of justice — who also happens to carry a hammer…
The Institute of the Black World 21st Century (IBW) Board of Directors and extended family shares with the African Diaspora the shroud of sadness at the transition of, as Baba Dunston describes below, Our Quiet Warrior Queen Dr. Phyllis Harrison-Ross. Her contributions, witness and testimony are an ongoing living legacy that her colleagues and admirers will use as the model for their own personal delivery of medical/psychological services to our people. A mighty oak has fallen in the forest but her spirit will be forever a beacon for us to eternally follow from generation to generation.
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — If we are to know ourselves rightly, honor our history, radically improve our present and forge a future worthy of the names African and human,…
By Jesse Jackson January 31, 2017 President Donald Trump’s most recent provocation — suddenly issuing an order banning the admission into the United States of refugees and immigrants from seven…
Vantage Point Radio Show hosted by Dr. Ron Daniels with guests Rev Waltrina Middleton, Dr Julianne Malveaux and Mark Thompson
Angela Davis Watch the full speech by Angela Davis at the Women’s March on Washington. “Over the next months and years, we will be called upon to intensify our demands…
Dr. Maulana Karenga The New Year, as always, no doubt found many of us joining in the larger society ritual of resolution-making which is more an expression of habit and…
By Daina Ramey Berry Chapter 3: Adolescence, Young Adulthood, and Soul Values Average Appraised Values: Females: $517 ($15,189 in 2014); Males: $610 ($17,934 in 2014) Average Sale Prices: Females: $515…
By Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor ‘The movement to resist Trump will have to be a mass movement, and mass movements aren’t homogeneous.’ Photograph: Patsy Lynch/Rex/Shutterstock Above Photo: ‘The movement to resist Trump…
By Sarah Lazare / AlterNet Defying a multi-pronged assault from the Trump adminstration, Black, Latinx and migrant organizations gathered inside Chicago’s city hall on Thursday to demand that officials expand…
By Brandon Capece (Research Associate at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs) With the confirmation of former CEO of ExxonMobil Rex Tillerson to the office of secretary of state, the Trump…
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