An examination of Black loyalty to the flag, this book looks at the views of Frederick Douglass, Muhammad Ali, Colin Kaepernick, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson Sr., and many others. It reviews the response of the Civil Rights movement and Black Lives Matter. The book discusses the loyalty of African Americans in the military. Other issues are discussed including police brutality, excessive prison incarceration, and voter suppression.

Here's to This Flag of Mine

Politics & Social Sciences

Ali, Sunni

Social Sciences

African American Images

<p>Lessons Learned: Critical Conversations in Hip Hop and Social Justice looks at the popularity and impact hip hop has on social movements. Historically, movements are spearheaded by youth. Their values are best portrayed in their music. The book provides numerous examples of how hip hop has impacted social movements. They include police brutality, incarceration, miseducation, voting, wages, guns, abortion and much more. This is an excellent books for lovers of rap and hip hop. It is ideal for those who love history and social movements.</p>

Lessons Learned: Critical Conversation in Hip Hop and Social Justice

Arts & Photography

Music

This book is dedicated to the terrific educators that inspire, uplift, and challenge young people to achieve their personal goals and aspirations. The journey of being a teacher is truly arduous and challenging, which makes it difficult for some teachers to remember why they entered this field. Teachers dedicate a great portion of their lives giving back to society, and despite their sincerest efforts, policyholders, business leaders, and certain members of the public do not appreciate the work educators perform on a consistent basis. Although it is very telling how many public schools have been closed and minority teachers dismissed from current reform, other schools and teachers will soon feel its wrath unless there is an educational push back and demand for a return to community schooling. This book speaks to not only how an educator continues to utilize creative methodology to reach youth, but also navigate through the harshness imposed by current school reform initiatives. My Schoolhouse is a Ghost Town further challenges educators and parents to commit to activism, as currently demonstrated by members of the Chicago Teacher Union and parent progressive organizations, to fight for reform under this current system and create their own school models. Otherwise, more schools communities and teachers will become "ghost" as unrealistic demands continue to impact this great profession.

My Schoolhouse Is a Ghost Town: A Teacher's Story Through Reform

Education & Teaching

Higher & Continuing Education

AuthorHouse

This book is dedicated to the terrific educators that inspire, uplift, and challenge young people to achieve their personal goals and aspirations. The journey of being a teacher is truly arduous and challenging, which makes it difficult for some teachers to remember why they entered this field. Teachers dedicate a great portion of their lives giving back to society, and despite their sincerest efforts, policyholders, business leaders, and certain members of the public do not appreciate the work educators perform on a consistent basis. Although it is very telling how many public schools have been closed and minority teachers dismissed from current reform, other schools and teachers will soon feel its wrath unless there is an educational push back and demand for a return to community schooling. This book speaks to not only how an educator continues to utilize creative methodology to reach youth, but also navigate through the harshness imposed by current school reform initiatives. My Schoolhouse is a Ghost Town further challenges educators and parents to commit to activism, as currently demonstrated by members of the Chicago Teacher Union and parent progressive organizations, to fight for reform under this current system and create their own school models. Otherwise, more schools communities and teachers will become “ghost” as unrealistic demands continue to impact this great profession.

My Schoolhouse Is A Ghost Town: A Teacher's Story Through Reform

<p>"The same things that causes one man to commit sucide, is the same thing that will cause another man to redouble his efforts and succeed." I was the sixth of seven children, born to a single mother and grew up in the Jamaica Plain housing projects, just on the other side of the Roxbury line; which was in 1956, considered "a suburb". At 9 yrs. old, I wanted to be the first black president of the United States. Senator Edward Brooke had just been elected the first black Senator of Mass. and I was proud of that feat. However, at age 12 I saw a picture in Jet Magazine, that filled my heart, soul and mind with a fear, anger and hatred that would last for the next 40 yrs. of my life. It was a picture of Emmett Till, a 13 yr. old black child from Chicago, who had went to visit his aunt in Mississippi, and made the mistake of whistling or winking at a white woman. The end results of what the Ku Klux Klan did to him was the worst thing I had ever seen. He had been shot and battered so badly that he looked more like a blob than a human being, less known a 13 yr. old boy. My heart almost jumped out of my body as I threw up all over the kitchen floor. Nothing and no one could ever explain to me why white people hated all black people so much that they would do something that cold, wicked and cruel to a child, no matter what color they were. I went from being an all A student to a C student overnight it seemed I began hooking school and hanging out with those kids my mother didn't approve of. I made it up in my mind that I was going to be a gangster like Cagney or Bogey or Edward G. Robinson. I was aroused and determined that one day I would be just like them. The gangsters they played, became real within my mind. As time moved on, I fell deeper and deeper into my depression and mood swings. Deeper and deeper into drugs, alcohol and the criminal world and further and further away from my dreams as a child to become the First Black President of the United States.</p>

The Other Side of the Coyne (The Emmett Till Effect)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mental Health

Independently published