To be Woke is to see and say what has gone unseen,unspoken. We have eyes, voices. We can offer both. Oprahmag.com

Shaquanda Cotton who in 2006 was sentenced to 7 years in cofinement at a Texas Juvenile Detention Facility, following accusations that she shoved a white hall monitor in school should have been the final straw for black people all over this country. - James Clingman also BlackNews.com

Oglesby asks whites to imagine a white infant placed in a Black home in a Black neighborhood to understand the frustration Black families feel. -Zena F. Oglesby, Jr. ( executive director of the Institute for Black Parenting).🌍

The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington🌍

We must not abandon the struggle to demand that the public school curricula in America be changed to reflect an accurate interpretation of the history, culture, and contributions of African people in math, science, language arts, art and social studies. -Dr. Conrad Worrill, Ph.D🌍

Black schools are our beacon of encouragement, bastions of pride and havens of concern by teachers who sincerely want each student to be successful and will do what needs to be done to make that a reality. -James Clingman

Fear-mongering on the issue of immigration comes from a bevy of sources-from white supremacist groups to CNN. -www.BlackPressInternational.com

The silent epidemic of dropping out of school not only hurts the student, but society as well. -George E. Curry / The Education choice to home school or charter schools charter schools have experienced double-digit annual growth, there are about two-million home-schooled children in the U.S. ( Final Call,2006)

Brothers must interact where the young Brothers hang. Go to school and mentor, Go to a barbershop. Just talk to them-the young Brothers, Mr. Powell said. ( Payday Loans: These places thrive in socially and economically deprived neighborhoods. They are bloodsuckers of the poor. There is nothing to educate people on how to get out of the debt that they are in so they get deeper in the hole. -Anthony Muhammad, Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner 🌍

A few years ago, leaders in this country proposed a formalized dialogue about race and racism. While there are some organized groups meeting together to engage this very delicate and critical conversation, I think we are further behind than we were during the Civil Rights days when racism was so glaringly obvious. - M. Linda Jaramillo 🌍