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Education Group Puts Spotlight on Dropout Prevention Programs

Education Group Puts Spotlight on Dropout Prevention ProgramsBOSTONTaking aim at the “hidden, national crisis” that consigns nearly five million out-of-school and unemployed young adults to a future locked out of education and family-supporting jobs, Jobs for the Future (JFF), a Boston-based education advocacy group, has called on policy-makers and educators around the country to get […]

May 19, 2004

Shifting the Emphasis

Shifting the Emphasis From Prison to Education: How Indiana Saved over $40 millionStates are facing the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. Yet, despite these deficiencies in funds, state governors must assure their constituents that dangerous criminals will still be arrested, adjudicated and imprisoned. Experience shows that the best way to ensure public safety […]

March 24, 2004

Our Collective Responsibility To Black Males

Our Collective Responsibility To Black MalesAs he went through cold-bath fields he saw a solitary cell; and the devil was pleased, for it gave him a hint for improving his prisons in hell. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge, writer and poetIn Cambridge, Mass., a speaker on race relations asked these questions: “Where are our young African […]

November 5, 2003

More Money Spent on Prisons Than on College, Group Says

More Money Spent on Prisons Than on College, Group Says MESA, Ariz.An education advocacy group says Arizona spends too much money operating prisons and too little money helping minorities earn college diplomas. “Arizona now spends more money to incarcerate its Latino population than it does to educate them,” says Joel Foster, a member of the […]

April 23, 2003

Malcolm X Collection

Malcolm X CollectionButterfield’s divided the Malcolm X collection into 21 lots and added a “super lot,” which would have allowed an institution to acquire the collection as a whole. The contents include personal letters to family and friends, handwritten drafts of radio addresses, drafts of speeches and speech outlines, an annotated address book, a large […]

April 10, 2002

Saving Lives: A Call to Action

Saving Lives: A Call to ActionState of Emergency: We Must Save African American Males By Jawanza KunjufuAfrican American Images, 202 pp., $23.95Nearly 20 years ago, Jawanza Kunjufu penned the first volume of his classic, Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys. In this book, Kunjufu outlined what he believed to be the major challenges facing […]

January 16, 2002

Community Colleges

Higher Education for Prisoners

Higher Education for Prisoners Will Lower Rates for TaxpayersWhat would you think if you were told that there are 1.6 million potential students who could be served by community colleges? Wouldn’t you consider this a great opportunity? Throughout the United States, without much fanfare, some community colleges already are going about the rewarding business of […]

January 16, 2002

Adding a Necessary Voice

Adding a Necessary VoicePRAIRIE VIEW’s juvenile justice program aims to increase number of minorities with doctorates in criminal justice Angela J. Davis wants to take scholarship from the classroom to the courtroom. A tenured law professor at the American University law school in Washington, Davis is seeking to spearhead a clinical research project that will […]

January 16, 2002

From The Classroom to the Courtroom

From The Classroom to the CourtroomScholars assess race and class in the American criminal justice systemBy Ronald RoachAngela J. Davis wants to take scholarship from the classroom to the courtroom. A tenured law professor at the American University law school in Washington, Davis is seeking to spearhead a clinical research project that will work directly […]

January 16, 2002

Prisons, Justice and Education

Prisons, Justice and EducationUnemployment rates have risen as the economy has soured, with the Black unemployment rate spiking higher than others. In early April, we learned that while the White unemployment rate was just 3.7 percent, the official unemployment rate for African Americans exceeded 8 percent. But if Black folks couldn’t find jobs “outside,” there […]

May 23, 2001

Former Hampton Student Kemba Smith

Former Hampton Student Kemba Smith Warns Against Drug LifeNORFOLK, Va. Kemba Smith, who spent six years in prison and was pardoned by President Clinton in December, told college students at Norfolk State University last month that drug life kills. “What sparkles on the outside isn’t always gold,” Smith, 29, said at a Black History Month […]

March 28, 2001

Correctional Education: Books Give Prisoners’ Perspectives

Correctional Education: Books Give Prisoners’ PerspectivesCurrently, some 70 percent of the 2 million people in U.S. jails, prisons and detention centers are people of color; approximately 1 million are African American. With the highest incarceration rate in the industrialized world, the United States is one of the few developed countries with capital punishment and one […]

June 7, 2000

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