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Do Schools Need
Fewer Teachers ?
The Philosophy
of Diversity
Lesson Plans
At Your Fingertips
"Web Design:
An Art Form?"
NCAA Women:The
Point Guards
"St.Paul-Great
Lion of God"
"The African-Americans"
(African-American
History Month)
The charismatic and articulate President and CEO of the NAACP, Kweisi Mfume, received a standing ovation after delivering the keynote address to delegates from around Connecticut. You could hear a ‘pin drop’ as the dynamic orator alternately praised and chided the attentive throng.. “ We have got to fight dis-
crimination...not each other. Set your bucket down where you are... more action...less pontification !” he exclaimed.
Something was different about the audiences reaction to these gentle reminders. A gleam was in the eye of most of the delegates to the conference.
"BSNNET is an invaluable list for members of the global internet arena who are interested in subject matter that attracts the true knowledge seekers in this world. The impact that Africans had upon civilization is not widely known nor publicized. Lack of knowledge about where one comes from impacts greatly upon ones ability to know where he or she is going. An inability to perceive direction will impair a persons ability to Know Thyself.
"We felt," Baker continued,"that the BSNNET list had great potential. Its roots at McGill University in Montreal ,Canada lend great credence to it as a forum for students, faculty, and lay persons interested in passing on any kind of valid information that does justice to the African diaspora."
"BSNNET is not a huge list but it is a qualitative list that appeals to people that are in the process of evolving positively in terms of their philosophical, historical and spiritual development"Baker said, "It is this evolutionary visionary and potential teacher or griot that we hope to attract."
Book Reviews:
by Jennifer Hamilton
A gleam that I hadn't seen since the 60’s. Taking a quick glance into the eyes of some of the delegates, I knew that something was taking root. This thing that was embedded in those eyes was hope. A woman at the table behind me gasped out..”.FINALLY!”
Finally, somebody is heading
this organization in the right
direction. See NAACP
Old Williamsburg,Va.
African-American History
The Griot (pictured above) telling the children about their history and the history of Williamsburg, Virginia could easily have told them about the house on the Old Nicholson street.
The Peyton Randolph
House
This house was the
abode of the sons and daughters of slaves after its first restoration in
around 1940.
See
Williamsburg
Book Review:
by Razik Muhammad
"The Disuniting of America:
Reflections on a Multicultural Society"
by Arthur Schlesinger
"Mama!"the little girl cried as she sped past my table enroute to the booth where her mother sat working diligently on some papers. "Whoppi Goldberg and James Earl Jones just said on that television that we ain't got no culture."
The mother, seemingly caught between the urge to correct the 'ain't got no" and the urgentcy to let her child know that ours was the first civilized culture, responded with a resounding "WHAT"!
By the time I arrived at the corner of the room where the TV was located James Earl Jones was pontificating and expostulating in a manner that was most convincing on the exactness of Whoppi's observation and his solution to the dilemma. "You are so right," exclaimed the actor, " what we need to do is invade the white folks culture!" On that note I made my exit from the coffee house.
Upon leaving the gathering place a chilly blast of New England's wintry wind sharpened. See "Diversity"