Education Pioneers, a national non-profit, hosted a panel discussion in Newark, New Jersey last Thursday on the critical need
for more black men in education.
Richard Ingersoll, who's a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and one of the leading experts on the American teaching force, told me efforts to
recruit more black men into education definitely pay off.
UNC Lineberger researchers led by Ronald C. Chen surveyed 1,171 men diagnosed with prostate cancer in North Carolina, finding that while both white and black men were concerned about curing their cancer and the quality - of - life impacts of treatment,
more black men considered other social and personal factors — such as recovery time and cost — to be very important in their treatment decision - making.
Everyday interracialdatingcentral has more and
more black men meeting sexy white women and finding meaningful relationships.
Toni mentioned the whole competition aspect — as in, if more black women dated interracially, then that would
leave more black men for the black women who prefer black men.
Respondents who were the only black men on their faculty indicated a greater desire to leave their current schools, even in a down economy, whereas respondents with four or
more black men on the faculty expressed a greater desire to stay.
And Mastery Shoemaker principal Sharif El - Mekki (a Citizen contributor) is leading a national effort to
encourage more black men to pursue careers in education as a way to support black boys in school.
Last week, NECSN CT State Director Jeremiah Grace was part of a panel discussion on the need
for more Black men in education.
[This is even before you consider that, unlike NEA and AFT, Teach For America has actually
recruited more black men and women into teaching, as well as supported the work of Black Lives Matter activists such as McKesson and Brittany Packnett (a Teach For America staffer).]
Part of the idea is that if there are
more black men in education, they'll be less likely to be stereotyped.
Your best tactic is going to be creating the best dating profile so that
more black men will stop and take notice.
There may be several reasons for this phenomenon, but more and
more black men are tending towards dating white women in the recent past.
Yet, there's lots of evidence that students benefit from having black teachers, and that
more black men in a school building may be especially important for black boys.
Johnson... said he was motivated by hatred over the deaths of two
more black men... at the hands of police.
In truth, there are
more black men in the grip of the criminal - justice system — in prison, on probation, or on parole — than were in slavery then.