Solutions For Black America

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Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307486087
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Make Black America Better written by and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2009-04-02 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issuing a powerful call for constructive social action, the popular radio and television commentator Tavis Smiley has assembled the voices of leading African American artists, intellectuals, and politicians from Chuck D to Cornel West to Maxine Waters. How to Make Black America Better takes a pragmatic, solutions-oriented approach that includes Smiley’s own ten challenges to the African American community. Smiley and his contributors stress the family tie, the power of community networks, the promise of education, and the leverage of black economic and political strength in shaping a new vision of America. Encouraging African Americans to realize the potential of their own leadership and to work collectively from the bottom up, the selections offer new ideas for addressing vital issues facing black communities. Featuring original essays by some of our most important thinkers, How to Make Black America Better is an essential book for anyone concerned with the status of African Americans today.

Author : Jawanza Kunjufu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Solutions for Black America written by Jawanza Kunjufu and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contending that the media and the black community allocate too much of their efforts to talking about the problems afflicting the African American community, this book attempts to reverse that trend by offering solutions in many areas, including education, family, health, economics, politics, organising, and Afrocentricity. Concerned that one-third of black America and one-half of its children live below the poverty line, activist and educator Jawanza Kunjufu expresses his concern about whether affirmative action and integration have really helped this population. Many diverse schools of thought are expressed, from the differences between Ward Connerly and Jesse Jackson and between US Supreme Justice Clarence Thomas and Al Sharpton. Also addressed is what percentage of the problem and their solutions lie with the effects of slavery and what portion should be addressed by self-responsibility.

Author : William B. Allen
Publisher : Encounter Books
ISBN 13 : 1641772670
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The State of Black America written by William B. Allen and published by Encounter Books. This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An incisive collection of essays that reveals the past, present, and future strength of black America as the best hope for a nation that has lost faith in itself. "A much-needed antidote to the madness-inducing contradiction of woke orthodoxy." —The Honorable Judge Janice Rogers Brown In a nation that is tearing itself apart over race, trying to speak honestly about the state of black America is a perilous task. Candor and thoughtfulness are often drowned by hysteria, expediency, and sentimentalism. The State of Black America seeks to restore these sorely needed virtues to the present discourse, assembling a company of scholars who confront our nation’s troubled racial history even as they bear witness to the promise the American heritage contains for blacks. The essays in this volume bring clarity to the murky darkness of America’s race debates, reviewing and building upon the latest scholarship on the character, shape, and tendencies of life for black Americans. Together, they tell a story of black America’s astounding success in integrating into mainstream American culture and propose that black patriotism is the key to overcoming what problems remain. Featuring scholarship from a variety of disciplines, including history, economics, social science, and political philosophy, The State of Black America offers to the world a “toolbox” of intellectual resources to aid careful and sound thinking on one of the most fraught issues of our time. Featuring contributions from W. B. Allen, Mikael Rose Good, Edward J. Erler, Robert D. Bland, Glenn C. Loury, Ian V. Rowe, Precious D. Hall, Daphne Cooper, Star Parker, and Robert Borens.

Author : Frank Newport
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0759511764
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Polling Matters written by Frank Newport and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2004-07-30 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From The Gallup Organization-the most respected source on the subject-comes a fascinating look at the importance of measuring public opinion in modern society. For years, public-opinion polls have been a valuable tool for gauging the positions of American citizens on a wide variety of topics. Polling applies scientific principles to understanding and anticipating the insights, emotions, and attitudes of society. Now in POLLING MATTERS: Why Leaders Must Listen to the Wisdom of the People, The Gallup Organization reveals: What polls really are and how they are conducted Why the information polls provide is so vitally important to modern society today How this valuable information can be used more effectively and more...

Author : Leonard Jack
Publisher : Hilton Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780981538198
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Diabetes in Black America written by Leonard Jack and published by Hilton Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this comprehensive book, top experts in the field of diabetes address prevention, intervention, and treatment of diabetes within the African-American community.

Author : Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469653672
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Race for Profit written by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST, 2020 PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY By the late 1960s and early 1970s, reeling from a wave of urban uprisings, politicians finally worked to end the practice of redlining. Reasoning that the turbulence could be calmed by turning Black city-dwellers into homeowners, they passed the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968, and set about establishing policies to induce mortgage lenders and the real estate industry to treat Black homebuyers equally. The disaster that ensued revealed that racist exclusion had not been eradicated, but rather transmuted into a new phenomenon of predatory inclusion. Race for Profit uncovers how exploitative real estate practices continued well after housing discrimination was banned. The same racist structures and individuals remained intact after redlining's end, and close relationships between regulators and the industry created incentives to ignore improprieties. Meanwhile, new policies meant to encourage low-income homeownership created new methods to exploit Black homeowners. The federal government guaranteed urban mortgages in an attempt to overcome resistance to lending to Black buyers – as if unprofitability, rather than racism, was the cause of housing segregation. Bankers, investors, and real estate agents took advantage of the perverse incentives, targeting the Black women most likely to fail to keep up their home payments and slip into foreclosure, multiplying their profits. As a result, by the end of the 1970s, the nation's first programs to encourage Black homeownership ended with tens of thousands of foreclosures in Black communities across the country. The push to uplift Black homeownership had descended into a goldmine for realtors and mortgage lenders, and a ready-made cudgel for the champions of deregulation to wield against government intervention of any kind. Narrating the story of a sea-change in housing policy and its dire impact on African Americans, Race for Profit reveals how the urban core was transformed into a new frontier of cynical extraction.

Author : Emmanuel Barbee
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1450041124
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Solution For Black America: written by Emmanuel Barbee and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-02-10 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Solution For Black America: Reclaiming, Rebuilding, and Restoring The Urban Ghettos In America." explains my biography and the purpose of this book, which is to promote my non-profit faith based organization in every ghetto in America. My nonprofit organization is twofold, one is to recruit prospective readers and two to seek Single Black Mother's who reside in the ghetto that might want to use the services we will offer. My organization will provide resources to help low income mothers with their children from birth until they complete High School. My organization will also help our young Black Men to avoid the streets and be productive citizens. I lay everything out in detail in my book. If the black community support me and accept the principles behind this movement then I will move my services from behind a computer into every ghetto in America. I will provide employment, community resources, and online support groups

Author : Suru Manek
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1503556689
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Generation B written by Suru Manek and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-07-24 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are You Tired of Being Victimized by Racism? Generation B gives real solutions to bring success to Black America Black America suffers. Poverty. Babies with no fathers. Illiteracy. Crime rates through the roof. There are many cry "racism" as the problem, but how many offer solutions that work? A homeless black man said it best, "success is the best revenge." But how can a whole segment of America's population find success when it is so beaten down? Generation B: Black America's Reset to Success offers a revolutionary solution to the problems Black America faces. Author Suru Manek learned to stand up to racism and discrimination in colonial Africa and found fantastic success in America. But he never liked the ever-widening chasm of racial inequality America exhibits. He wondered--what would happen if African Americans applied a cultural blueprint similar to his own? Generation B: Black America's Reset to Success is the result. Discover the magic mix of cultural elements that can bring success to even the most oppressed. Racism exists in America, but you do not need to become a victim to it. Generation B offers a solution for Black America, one which African Americans everywhere are invited to participate. For real change will only happen when black communities across America decide to reset themselves as a culture and change from within.

Author : Eugene Robinson
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0767929969
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Disintegration written by Eugene Robinson and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2011-10-04 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The African American population in the United States has always been seen as a single entity: a “Black America” with unified interests and needs. In his groundbreaking book, Disintegration, Pulitzer-Prize winning columnist Eugene Robinson argues that over decades of desegregation, affirmative action, and immigration, the concept of Black America has shattered. Instead of one black America, now there are four: • a Mainstream middle-class majority with a full ownership stake in American society; • a large, Abandoned minority with less hope of escaping poverty and dysfunction than at any time since Reconstruction’s crushing end; • a small Transcendent elite with such enormous wealth, power, and influence that even white folks have to genuflect; • and two newly Emergent groups—individuals of mixed-race heritage and communities of recent black immigrants—that make us wonder what “black” is even supposed to mean.

Author : Gretchen Sorin
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1631495704
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights written by Gretchen Sorin and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bloomberg • Best Nonfiction Books of 2020: "[A] tour de force." The basis of a major PBS documentary by Ric Burns, this “excellent history” (The New Yorker) reveals how the automobile fundamentally changed African American life. Driving While Black demonstrates that the car—the ultimate symbol of independence and possibility—has always held particular importance for African Americans, allowing black families to evade the dangers presented by an entrenched racist society and to enjoy, in some measure, the freedom of the open road. Melding new archival research with her family’s story, Gretchen Sorin recovers a lost history, demonstrating how, when combined with black travel guides—including the famous Green Book—the automobile encouraged a new way of resisting oppression.