African-American - News September 17, 2011
Museum members preview new African-American Builders exhibit (Mt. Airy News)
Ann Webb leans in to look at a Walnut ladies table handmade by Thomas Day. Emma Jean Tucker, left, also came out for the event Friday night and was admiring his works as well.
Hopefuls debate at museum (The Advocate)
Education and Tangipahoa's economy took center stage Thursday night at the debate between parish president candidates Gordon Burgess and Carlos Notariano.
To the people (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
Clad in a blue barber's smock, Wade Lipscomb smiled and hugged Yvonne Weidman, a Duquesne University nursing professor, as a contingent of student nurses marched into his Homewood barber shop on Thursday morning.
Dear Black Community: Beating Children With Belts Is Not Discipline, It's Abuse (womanist-musings)
I came across the following video on facebook, and it triggered me to the point that my whole body is shaking and I am crying. Beating a child with a belt does not cause them to behave differently. If that were the case, the father would not have had to beat him a second time. All it does is create animosity and break down trust between parent and child. Who wants to ask the person that beats them for help when they are in trouble or fear that they have done something wrong? Not only does this child have to go through the humiliation of having his head shaved against his will, the beating and his reaction to it were filmed and released to the public. This is not the first time I have seen Black adults film the beating Black children. and then place it online for the purposes of shaming the child into conforming to their desired behaviour. Whiteness does a pretty good job at making us look like savages, but videos like the one above are completely the actions of Blacks themselves. You don't beat someone who is weaker, smaller, and does not have the experience to make certain decisions or understand consequences. Claiming that this form of abuse is to fight the racist penal system only creates a new form of oppression and emboldens adult privilege, as well as child abuse. Black people are in prison because we live in a White supremacist state that is determined to impoverish and criminalize Blacks, not because we need to beat our children more. Don't Black kids have enough to deal with growing and learning in a society that fundamentally hates them, without piling even more abuse on their plates from the ones that are supposed to love and protect them?
Youth Pulse Radio addresses The importance of Black Media & How to become an Entrepreneur (youthexposhow.blogspot)
On Saturday, September 10th Youth Pulse held a timely and important discussion on The Importance & Value of Black Media and How to Become an Entrepreneur! On the topic of Black Media the youth interviewed Brother Jesse Muhammad, an award winning journalist and blogger, radio commentator and nationally known Motivational Speaker. He also serves as a Staff Writer for The Final Call Newspaper since 2005. Ashahed Muhammad, who is a journalist, author veteran organizer, Executive Director of the Truth Establishment Institute and Assistant Editor of the influential weekly publication The Final Call. The second segment of the show, which addressed Entrepreneurship, featured Agaytha B. Corbin, Founder, President and CEO of the CDCRC and Attorney Ambrose Mosses III of Moses Law on Entrepreneurship. Listen to the Youth Pulse program with your teen today!
White Africville hire draws fire (CBC)
The hiring of a white person to lead the Africville Heritage Trust has angered some members of Nova Scotia's black community.
Stamp honors political trailblazer Barbara Jordan (The Beaumont Enterprise)
Former U.S. Rep. Barbara Jordan of Texas now has her own postage stamp. It's the 34th in the post office's Black Heritage series.
Breast cancer spreads significantly different in Black women (The Westside Gazette)
When it comes to the way breast cancer spreads throughout the body of African American women are in comparison to white women, there significant differences.
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