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PHOTO: Actor and award-winning humanitarian Jesse Williams/ Courtesy КАК Я НАШЕЛ СВОЙ БИЗНЕС У СЕБЯ ДОМА By now, most, if not all of the African world has watched or heard about Jesse Williams’ five-minute oratorical masterpiece at the BET Awards earlier this week. Upon accepting the 2016 BET Humanitarian Award, Williams, a Black actor who rarely minces words in his analyses of domestic racial affairs, called out the United States for the litany of crimes it commits against Black people. A multi-ethnic audience of his wealthy and famous peers, and much of Black America, listened as he… Full article here.

Community College Preparatory Academy, the only adult charter school in the United States, gives adults of all ages living east of the Anacostia River an opportunity to attain their high school diploma and prepare for college-level work see here. Connie Spinner, founding executive director, launched the program after seeing students struggle at the University of the District of Columbia. This video features commentary from Spinner and students enrolled at Community College Preparatory Academy.http://rpk-tramplin.ru

#OurLivesMatter: One Year Later By Sam P.K. Collins Founder and Host of AllEyesOnDC.com @SamPKCollinskahovka-service.ru If there’s any doubt that District youth want to quell violence in their community and boost civic engagement among their peers, young people at a local recreation center are slowly but surely laying those concerns to rest, all the while sharpening their leadership skills. Since launching the #OurLivesMatter campaign at the FBR Branch of the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Washington more than a year ago, this special group of students has engaged 600 middle and high schoolers in discussions about systemic inequality, cultural heritage, conflict resolution, and other topics. With the guidance of adult leaders, […]

Police Union Contracts: The Ultimate Get-out-of-Jail Free Card By Sam P.K. CollinsКрышки The 2014 state-sanctioned murder of Chicago teenager Laquan McDonald, like other shootings of its kind across the country, revealed the lengths that city and state political leaders will go to absolve police officers of any responsibility in the callous execution of black people. Shortly after Officer Jason Van Dyke pumped 16 bullets into McDonald, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, in the midst of a reelection campaign, and his colleagues on the City Council secured a $5 million settlement for McDonald’s family. Officials also delayed the release of the dash cam footage that prosecutors would later use to charge Van […]

Black College Students Show the Power of Unity By Sam P.K. Collins Founder and Host of AllEyesOnDC.com @SamPKCollinsinfolio-rg.ru If there has been any doubt about the power of grassroots organizing, a recent gathering at Howard University (HU) ’s Blackburn Center, has, to some degree, given some hope to the disillusioned. For much of the day on Friday, Dec. 4, student leaders and administrators from a bevy of local universities engaged in raw, thought-provoking dialogue with their administrators about problems black students face on campus. These talks bore some similarity to those I participated in at the height of my undergraduate career at The George Washington University (GW). This daylong event […]

TMCT Martin Luther King, Jr. Panel Recap  veroxybd.comragrani.ru By Sam P.K. Collins As much of Black America enters a new era of political and social consciousness, no bastion of white supremacy is safe, including that which paints the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as a passive integrationist and unwavering friend of the establishment. Amid celebrations of what would’ve been the storied Civil Rights figure’s 85th birthday, people of African descent focused less on the King of 1965 who asked us to dream and more on the man who called for cooperative economics and mass boycotts of discriminatory corporations that didn’t hire African Americans.  This recent shift in thinking among […]

TMCT Black History Month Panel Recap By Sam P.K. Collinstrevordiy.wordpress.comvisualcage.ru In African spiritual systems, people often uphold the memories of their ancestors and honor their achievements through storytelling and prayer. In doing so, they gain a deeper understanding of their history and grow empowered to carry on their forefathers’ and foremothers’ work the best way they can. While we find remnants of those traditions in our celebration of Black History Month, many people of African descent living in the United States struggle to maintain a connection to the African continent, due mainly to the American education system’s focus on chattel slavery and the events thereafter. However, the tide is changing, […]

Washington Bar Association Honors Judge Eric Christian Esteemed Jurist Receives the Ollie Mae Cooper Award By Barrington M. Salmon A packed auditorium of family, friends, colleagues and admirers celebrated with DC Superior Court of Appeals Chief Judge Eric T. Christian recently as he received the Washington Bar Association’s prestigious Ollie Mae Cooper Award. The award – named after one of the first African-American women in the country to start her own law practice – is bestowed on those in the legal profession who demonstrate exemplary leadership, outstanding service, and who also enhance the image of the legal community at large. The 37th Annual Ollie Mae Cooper Award ceremony took place at […]