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100 Black Men of Chicago held their 10th Annual College Scholarship Fair
The 100 Black Men of Chicago held their 10th Annual College Scholarship Fair (CSF) at the UIC Forum on Saturday, October 13. Despite the overcast and rainy day, thousands of students lined up to visit the more than 200 colleges and universitites in attendance. When the Fair opened at 9:00 a.m. lines were around the [...]
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A Different World: The Post-Millennial Perils of Black Family T.V. Programming
To be clear, African Americans are not a monolithic people. Such cannot be attributed to any ethnic group. But based upon many of the most prominent depictions of Black life on television today, which itself is few and far between, it would appear that when depicting Black people, pathology is the order of the day. [...]
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Not quite a prime time for black families on network TV
Cedric the Entertainer’s new sitcom ‘The Soul Man’ underlines the rarity of seeing a black family on prime-time television decades after ‘The Cosby Show.’ On a recent Sunday at the First African Methodist Episcopal Church, an overflow crowd gathered hours after services to see a screening of TV Land’s “The Soul Man,” starring Cedric the Entertainer as [...]
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Former NBA Star Allan Houston Rallies for Fatherhood
THE EX-KNICK PROVES HE’S STILL A FRANCHISE PLAYER AS HE USES SPORTS TO INSPIRE FAMILIES With Jay-Z opening up the new Barclays Center over the weekend, Brooklyn witnessed the new home of professional basketball in their backyard. But, before the hometown Nets tip off their 2013 season against the Knicks, a former franchise player of the [...]
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Parenting Like FLOTUS–Raising Black Women in Training
“Ain’t no half-stepping!” Long before Big Daddy Kane — or even the Seventies band, Heatwave — put them to music, these were my mother’s favorite words. Slacking was not tolerated in our house. And while I can’t say she ever put it out there explicitly, mama clearly wanted us to know that as Blacks we [...]
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New Research Takes Aim at Stereotype That Black Young Men Are Not College Material
To improve the graduation rates among African-American men, the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation aims to dispel the notion that this group is underrepresented in institutions of higher learning. According to a recent report, “Challenging the Status Quo” partially supported by the CBC Foundation, black males make up 5.5 percent of all college students age 18 [...]
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Phillip Jackson Works to Improve Prospects for Black Boys to Go to College
The Black Star Project has provided mentoring, college prep for 2,500 Chicago students in 15 years. The graduation rates for blacks, who comprise 13.6 percent of the U.S. population, continue to lag behind those of most racial groups. Phillip Jackson, founder and executive director of The Black Start Project, launched a mentoring project in 1996 to improve high-school [...]
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