Excellent article by Michael W. Waters My only son turned five years old last week. He is a handsome, articulate, energetic, intelligent, fun-loving and gentle young man. He is the apple of my eye! There’s only one problem: he is Black. And as his father, I am challenged to do for him what generations of [...]
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“A Painful (Yet Familiar) Ritual” by Michael W. Waters
Posted in African Diaspora, AfroSpear, AfroSphere, Black Family, Black Issues, Children, Critical Thinking, Life, Michael W. Waters, Racism on October 4, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Byts and Bytes
Posted in Africa, African Diaspora, Afro-Futurism, AfroSpear, AfroSphere, Black Issues, Byts and Bytes, Critical Thinking, Cyberspace, Education, Exploitation, Geopolitics, Jazzuloo, Leadership, News, Revolution, Television on March 6, 2011 | 3 Comments »
1. Psycho-Slavery: Black Boys, White Female Teachers & the Rise of A.D.H.D. 2. How China has created a new slave empire in Africa 3. Afro-Futurism: The Marketing of Revolution
“The Reason Why The Black Male ‘Crisis’ Is a Hoax” by José Luis Vilson
Posted in Activism, African-Americans, AfroSpear, Afrospear bloggers, AfroSphere, Black Issues, Critical Thinking, Education, Life on November 16, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Interetsing article in the Huffington Post by educator, writer and AfroSpear Googlegroup blogger: José Luis Vilson. Joel Klein’s recent resignation had an interesting alignment to a report that showed that black males in the United States aren’t doing well in this country. You’ve read the statistics. Only 12 percent of black fourth-grade boys are proficient [...]
When Voting and Racism Collide
Posted in 2010 U.S. Midterm Elections, Black History, Black Issues, Black pride, Civil Rights, Politics, White Approval, White privilege, tagged Black History, elections, Racial Profiling, racist, voting on November 5, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Meet John Barr; Ypsilanti Township, Mich racist. I met John this past Tuesday (Nov 2) when I went to my polling location to vote. Backstory: Over the last few months, I had been debating how I would vote for Mich governor. I was or torn between voting for a republican whom I felt was competent [...]
Black Blogger Network Monthly Blogging Contest
Posted in AfroSpear, Afrospear bloggers, AfroSphere, Black Issues, Blogging, Critical Thinking on October 10, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Hello Afrospear family, I am Jessica Ann Mitchell, the facilitator of The Black Love Speak Column (BlackLoveSpeak.com). A few months ago I started another website, BlackBloggerNetwork.com. The purpose of the site is to support the initiatives of Black Bloggers. In an effort to encourage healthy dialogue about issues important to black communities, I am launching [...]
Should Black Women Stop Getting Abortions?
Posted in Abortion, Activism, Adoption, Africa, African Diaspora, African-Americans, African/Black Women Blogs, AfroSpear, AfroSphere, Black Issues, Critical Thinking on June 7, 2010 | 13 Comments »
Excellent article at The Black Love Speak Column. Although I am sharing it here, I encourage comments to be made also at the original article. If you live in Atlanta, Macon, or Augusta GA, you may have come across one of these signs. Black & Unwanted billboards are springing up in various areas of Georgia. The Radiance [...]


