Nikki Giovanni, the poet, author, educator and public speaker who went from borrowing money to release her first book to spending decades as a literary celebrity who shared blunt and conversational takes on everything from racism and love to space travel and mortality, has died.
After more than five decades as a public-school educator and administrator and almost a decade as an elected official, prominent educator and community leader Dr. George J. McKenna III has decided to retire from the L.A. Unified Board of Education at the end of his current term.
Dr. Gloria J. McNeal, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on August 17, 1947, revered as a leader in nursing education and healthcare innovation, passed away on May 31 following a brief illness.
LAUSD’s Black Student Achievement Plan stresses the importance of Black history and culture. Irvin Davis, an educator and assistant football coach at Dorsey High School, recently outlined the new initiative to the L.A. Sentinel.
After more than five decades as a public-school educator and administrator and almost a decade as an elected official, prominent educator and community leader Dr. George J. McKenna III has decided to retire from the L.A. Unified Board of Education at the end of his current term.
A campaign has been launched to provide financial assistance to Kim Taylor, Sr., a longtime educator at local schools throughout greater L.A. Known to many as “Coach,” Taylor is in need of a heart transplant and kidney transplant and is currently undergoing physician clearances to prepare for surgery.
At the classy Create The Lab venue, Hazel Carmack Harris invited nearly 200 people to a masquerade party for her 80th birthday. However, instead of celebrating her eighth decade, the retired educator and community advocate saluted four people she described as “making the city of Los Angeles a better place to live.”
Brenda Harris, an outspoken advocate and civil servant who influenced state education policy, died after a brief illness. She was 71.
“We have COVID, we have anti-Black, we have the very tenuous economy and we have the climate catastrophe,” said Dr. Ladson-Billings.
Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) has introduced several bills, including the Juvenile Accountability Block Grant Reauthorization and Bullying Prevention and Intervention Act, H.R. 71, the Federal Prison Bureau Nonviolent Offender Relief Act of 2015, and H.R. 4660, an Amendment to the Commerce, Justice, and Science Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2015 affirming the authority of the Attorney General to reduce prison overcrowding by developing and implementing lawful policies relating to requests for executive clemency from deserving petitioners.
Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Mississippi), who began his grassroots political activism being a civil rights champion through the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) while a student at Tougaloo College, will receive the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) 2020 National Leadership Award.
A graduate of Chatham University and American University – with honorary degrees from both Chatham University and Trinity University, Mayor Muriel Bowser has moved the forefront of racial equality and social justice.
During the intimate video-taped interview inside the National Museum of African American History and Culture, the two visionaries also tackled topics that ranged from the Transatlantic Slave Trade, their shared North Carolina families’ histories, the writing legacy of author James Baldwin, and the contemporary vitality of the Black Press of America.
“At each significant turning point in my life, when I was introduced to the world of progressive political activism, anti-racist prison abolition struggles, when I myself was on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted List and ended up spending two years in jail and on trial, when I became involved in many international solidarity efforts, intersectional feminist movements, I’ve always been one of many,” Davis said during her induction speech. “My own consciousness has always been enabled by shared endeavors and collective consciousness.”
“The long struggle over the development of education in the postbellum South occurred in large part because no dominant class could convince the freed people that its conception of education reflected a natural and proper social order,” Anderson wrote in “The Education of Blacks in the South,” James Anderson is the author of The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935