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Books for Black Youth and Parents
Here are some books for people of African heritage, to help us achieve our goals and realise our dreams. For more info on each book, click on the title.
Motivating and Preparing Black Youth for Success
by Jawanza Kunjufu
Asks and answers the questions how can we reduce the dropout rate? Why does the motivation to learn decline as the age increases for most youth? Are we training or educating students? How can we identify and develop their talents? Read this very interesting book for some startling answers!
A Wealth of Wisdom is a collection of stories, experiences, and observations of more than fifty African Americans, ages seventy and over, including Maya Angelou, Ray Charles, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, David Dinkins, Katherine Dunham, Dick Gregory, Robert Guillaume, Coretta Scott King, Gordon Parks, and Andrew Young. Accompanied by portraits by famed photographer Howard L. Bingham, the accounts by these pivotal leaders take us behind their historic public moments to their underlying personal realities.
by Janice E. Hale
In a wide but welcome swing of the pendulum, Hale (founder of a school for facilitating the intellectual development of African-American preschool children and author of two books on educating black children) fixes her gaze directly upon schools the teachers and the children. Here is a fresh and feisty look at the miseducation of African-American children by a knowledgeable practitioner (and Wayne State University professor of early childhood education), a "call for action directed to the organizations controlled by middle-class African Americans, not to beleaguered individuals themselves."
by Jawanza Kunjufu: It frustrates me that we lose so many of our college students to rap, drugs, and the NBA. We live in a society that is so materialistic, that getting paid becomes the driving force. Many of our youth have concluded that you will earn more as a drug dealer than a doctor, more as a criminal than a computer programmer….
To read Black success stories online, visit: Black Success Stories.
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