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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

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Submission from educator, writer and AfroSpear Googlegroup blogger José Luis Vilson Click on image for article:

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This article in the Huffington Post was forwarded to the AfroSpear by Wayétu Moore, one of the creators and publisher of onemoorebook: When Liberia was my home, they called it sweet. Sweet was the word I remembered the most during the war. I was five and my father, two sisters and I fled Monrovia and [...]

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Updated repost of one of my favorites. Thanks to Sister Anna for bringing it to my attention again after 3 years.  I remember watching a couple of the Sherlock Holmes movies when I was a kid. I never thought much of them as the story lines didn’t really hold my interest, plus they were shown [...]

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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 [...]

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Powerful commentary by Nigerian writer, poet, playwright and 1986 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Wole Soyinka, on Africa’s role in the slave trade and it’s consequences. These are 2 must read articles posted in the online magazine theRoot: Part 1, Part 2 

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You know you’re addicted.  Tell me you’re not, and I’ll tell you that you are.  You actually need a white person to approve of you as a black person in order to feel good about yourself. That’s why you’re so mad that there are still racists out there.  It’s so upsetting to you because you [...]

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In a recent interview with the New York Post, Actor/Comedian Tracy Morgan stated: “I’m glad I dropped out of high school, man. I wouldn’t be where I’m at. I would have had a net. I’m glad I didn’t have anything to fall back on, man, because that made me go for my dreams that much [...]

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