Sentences with phrase «african american male»

Results revealed higher rates of depressive symptoms in this subsample of African American male adolescents when compared to estimated prevalence rates of depression for adolescents as reported by large - scale studies and meta - analysis data.

This paper presents findings of clinically significant depressive symptoms in African American male adolescents receiving routine health care services within an adolescent reproductive health clinic.

This supports the notion that primary and reproductive healthcare settings are viable settings for the identification of depressive symptoms, particularly among low - income, African American male adolescents.

Improving the attendance rate for African American male students in an after school reading program through parental involvement, positive male role models, and tutorial instruction.

Community - level victimization and aggressive behavior in African American male adolescents: a profile analysis.

These include an expanding restorative justice approach to discipline, implementing the African American Male Achievement Program in both elementary and secondary schools, and trauma - informed practices throughout the system.

I'm an African American male in my late 30 ′ s with Bachelors of Science in MIS coupled with prestigious certifications (PMP, ITIL, Cisco, Microsoft, Apple etc.) I have a outstanding employment history and educational background but I've been getting rejection letters stating basically that I'm not qualified to be an IT manager or IT project manager when that's what I do.

The dust - up reflected a similar distinction between Vergne's high - profile exhibitions for two white male artists and Molesworth's for an African American male artist and a Latin American female artist.

The exhibition features a collection of white dolls that Hancock, an African American male, has collected over the past 20 years, alongside black dolls from the Philadelphia African American Doll Museum.

His work explores African American male identity, masculinity, notions about the father figure, and the photographic archive, by providing a frame of reference that articulates the identities of Black men.

Featured in the exhibit, Branded Chest (2003) from his Br@nded series, is a photograph of an anonymous African American male torso, with a scar of the Nike symbol etched on its left pectoral.

Moundverse Infants will present a collection of white dolls that Hancock, an African American male, has collected over the past 20 years, alongside black dolls from the Philadelphia African American Doll Museum.

His work looks at race, class, and history through advertising, focusing predominantly on the use of the African American male body in advertisements.

The historian and curator of African American collections at Emory University presents new multimedia work reflecting on African American male identity throughout American history.

From a Black Son to a White Man to a Black Woman and Back Again will present a collection of white dolls that Hancock, an African American male, has collected over the past 20 years, alongside black dolls from the Philadelphia African American Doll Museum, exhibited alongside a new set of dolls he has created based on these two collections.

From a Black Son to a White Man to a Black Woman and Back Again will present a collection of white dolls that Hancock, an African American male, has collected over the past 20 years, alongside black dolls from the Philadelphia Doll Museum.

In 2002 Willis Thomas gained wide recognition for a series called BÂ ® anded, a group of images created by digitally adding a scarred «Nike» logo to the chest and head of an African American male model.

In this sense, Live satirizes a viewpoint that would reduce the entertainer — or, more pointedly, the African American male — to a body.

The Office of African American Male Achievement has been transparent about its process of coming to existence, and has made its curriculum and operating methods open for other districts to replicate.

«African American Male Achievement.»

The Black Sonrise: Oakland Unified School District's Commitment to Address and Eliminate Institutionalized Racism, an evaluation report prepared for the Office of African American Male Achievement, Oakland Unified School District, Oakland: CA.

Christopher Chatmon joined Oakland Unified in 2010 to help launch the district's African American Male Achievement initiative with former Superintendent Tony Smith.

I focused on three of my African American male students in my fifth grade classroom.

Shifting My Thinking / Shifting Their Achievement: An Asset Approach to Supporting African American Male Readers

Oakland was the first major city in the nation to appoint an African American male superintendent in 1970.

Presenters include Christopher P. Chatmon, executive director of the Office of African American Male Achievement at Oakland Unified School District; David Yusem, program manager for Restorative Justice at Oakland Unified School District; A.J. Watson, Becoming a Man (BAM) director at Chicago - based Youth Guidance; and Kathryn Rice, community school coordinator at Hancock College Preparatory High School in Chicago.

We are gathering NYC African American male leaders in middle and high school to come together in affinity with other Young Kings their age visiting from Oakland, CA.

The school district's African American Male Achievement (AAMA) initiative, which began in 2010, encourages students to find strength in their community and themselves.

In late April, three African American male college students received the Eddie Phillips Scholarship Award.

But when an African American male student, like Rasheen Hill, tells me this during a recent visit to his high school alma mater, I feel a special pride that comes with a re-energized, palpable hope for better days for future generations.

Paul Hagan recently threatned the life of one of his african american male students in his class on video.

In Philadelphia, even though the four percent of African American male classroom teachers is double the national percentage, we still lag far behind what's needed to help our students, 50.49 percent of whom are African American.

This article provides background on OUSD's current initiatives to support African American male students.

In response to these statistics, OUSD established the Office of African American Male Achievement in 2010, which offers manhood development classes, a Black Student Union, and parent summits to discuss issues related to African American student achievement.

The study provides a better understanding of how the care of teacher / staff supported the educational experience of the African American male student.

From Perception to Practice: How Teacher - student Interactions Affect African American Male Achievement

The absence of African American male teachers in American classrooms is an issue that must be addressed over this next decade.

He asks questions like can white teachers educate black boys, but in his lower school there is only one African American male educator that actually teaches in the classroom.

Superintendent Larry Nyland established an African American Male Advisory Committee (AAMAC) to «provide guidance on how to best transform our educational system so that we are ensuring educational excellence for all students, starting with African - American males.»

In fact, the district operationalized 5 of the 6 recommendations from the Committee's predecessor, the African American Male Think Tank.

Here's just one example: A recent study showed that just one in 10 of the District's African American male graduates goes on to earn a two - year degree, a four - year degree, or a successful military enlistment.

Zella (age 9), who is the daughter of panelist Cary Booker, asked the panel for their insight on how she should navigate her own education: «There are no African American male students in my school and only one Black member of the teaching staff.

Not only in becoming part of the larger conversations about education and research, but also more specifically in regard to narrowing the achievement gap for African American male students.

Before Niambi Jaha - Echols, artist and consultant, moved east from Chicago in 2014, her now -13-year-old son Jelani was struggling at a private school that, in her view, set a lower expectation for him as an African American male.

Much in the same way that Alan Crosland's The Jazz Singer (1927) is remembered primarily for its being the first feature length talkie, Stepin Fetchit has been immortalized for netting Poitier the first competitive Oscar for an African American male.

He then adds, «This is my first Golden Globe and the first for an African American male in this category — ever.

Casting directors are looking for a real DJ, ravers, and an older African American male actor in Atlanta, Georgia.

NLC is searching for a 70 + Year old African American male for a feature film shooting south of ATL.The older, the better.

In Amman Abbasi's debut, Dayveon has plenty of big reasons to believe that everything is stupid: His older brother was recently killed in gang - related violence and there isn't much of a chance Dayveon will be able to avoid a similar fate, both because he's already facing hazing rituals with the Bloods in town, and because Abbasi reflects the milieu of a young African American male growing up in the impoverished South in tones of unmitigated naturalism shot through with shreds of magical realism.

He nabbed Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series for This Is Us having also become the first African American male actor to win the Golden Globe for the same role.