Shahid
Muhammad - How To Teach Math To Black Students
Intended for parents and teachers of African American students,
this book provides strategies for correcting the racial
achievement gap in upper-grade mathematics. Advice is
provided on instilling confidence in African American
students and on teaching math in a less sterile and
theoretical way. Also explored is how critical thinking
skills are essential in understanding math. A wealth of
ideas is provided on creating relevant word problems to help
students better understand basic
math functions.
Price:
$10.00
Tough
Notes: A Healing Call for Creating Exceptional Black Men
Description: This book, like most of his books, is a collection
of self-empowerment essays. It is a wake-up call to men. The
subtitles are Empowering the Self, Finding the Exceptional
You, Women, Progressive Nurturing and Liberation. Tons of
information is in this book In addition to the essays,
there's the bibliography that he gives as well as a list of
newspapers,
magazines and journals.
Price: $15.00(Hardback)
Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu -
Motivating and Preparing Black Youth for Success
This compelling look at the relationship between the
majority of African American students and their teachers
provides answers and solutions to the hard-hitting questions
facing education in today's black and mixed-race
communities. Are teachers prepared by their college
education departments to teach African American children?
Are schools designed for middle-class children and, if so,
what are the implications for the 50 percent of African
Americans who live below the poverty line? Is the major
issue between teachers and students class or racial
difference? Why do some of the lowest test scores come from
classrooms where black educators are teaching black
students? How can parents negotiate with schools to prevent
having their children placed in special education programs?
Also included are teaching techniques and a list of
exemplary schools that are successfully educating African
Americans.
Price: $7.00
 Kevin
McNutt -
Hooked
on Hoops: Understanding Black Youths' Blind Devotion to
Basketball
Every Black woman living in this country needs to have this
book in their possession immediately! This book will indeed
explain everything you wanted to know about life but were
afraid to ask a man. Thank you Michael Porter for laying out
the facts as raw as you did. This is a book that will save
your life and enlighten you to progress independently. I
couldn't put it down! It's an easy read but it's straight up
with no chaser! I highly recommend this book to my sistas
out there who want to know the real deal! Chronicling and
critiquing the passion African American males have with the
NBA, this thoughtful dialogue challenges athletes, parents,
educators, the media, and the larger society to examine the
obsession with basketball. With 91 percent of the NBA
African American and only two percent of the African
American community doctors, dentists, and engineers, a
solution for the future is desperately needed, and this book
tries to answer some of the tough questions posed by these
alarming figures.
Price $7.00
 Michael
Porter - Kill Them Before They Grow: The Misdiagnosis of
African American Boys in America's Classrooms
Where do I begin......this book has been extremely
informative. Specifically in regards to the "public" school
system. I am a 31 year old single parent of an 11 year old
boy. Recently I have been dealing with various issues within
the public school system. It alarms me to know that the
experiments to "distruction" of our black children still
goes on. Moreso, how we continue to allow are children to be
"test cases". We can no longer turn a "blinds eye" to our
African American children (specifically boys) any longer.
This book has encouraged me to continue to be a "visible"
advocate for my son as well as other African American boys.
It has compelled me to become more pro-active in my childs
education. It is imperative that we as African Americans put
an end to this "Progressive Genocide" in the school system.
We can no longer afford to be complacent! I pray that you
recieve the message this book has to offer. It is time we
"Rose" to the occassion! Price $7.00
 Dr.
Jawanza Kunjufu
- Black Students / Middle Class Teachers
This compelling look at the
relationship between the majority of African American
students and their teachers provides answers and solutions
to the hard-hitting questions facing education in today's
black and mixed-race communities. Are teachers prepared by
their college education departments to teach African
American children? Are schools designed for middle-class
children and, if so, what are the implications for the 50
percent of African Americans who live below the poverty
line? Is the major issue between teachers and students class
or racial difference? Why do some of the lowest test scores
come from classrooms where black educators are teaching
black students? How can parents negotiate with schools to
prevent having their children placed in special education
programs? Also included are teaching techniques and a list
of exemplary schools that are successfully educating African
Americans. Price $7.00
 Dr.
Jawanza Kunjufu
- State of Emergency: We Must Save
African American Males
State of Emergency offers a bold, provocative, and
uncompromising critique of America's treatment of black men
and boys. This timely book not only asks crucial questions,
it also provides insightful answers to some of the more
baffling disparities that occur between African Americans
(especially males) and others in American society. It asks,
for example, "How do we reconcile that African Americans are
13 percent of drug users, but 35 percent of those arrested
for drug possession, 55 percent of those convicted, and 74
percent of those sentenced?" The disturbing (but credible)
conclusion Jawanza Kunjufu reaches is that African American
males are fodder for the penal system. He argues that
prisons are big business and are growing at the rate of
about 25 percent annually. Because much of the private
sector sees how profitable providing goods and services to
the government can be, the prison-industrial complex
continues to grow, and the proportion of African American
men involved with the criminal (in)justice system keeps
increasing, despite declines in the crime rate. From the
outset, Kunjufu makes the case that Black America should
declare a state of emergency. He asserts that there are
several conditions that would lead to the declaration of a
state of emergency if they were to occur in the United
States' white community. Price $15.00(Hardback)
 Walter
Mosley - What Next: A Memoir Toward World Peace
This impassioned essay urges black Americans to take the
lead in shaping America's response to the September 11
attacks. Mosley, author of the Easy Rawlins mystery series,
puts forth a radical critique of U.S. foreign policy,
recalling U.S. interventions in Indochina, Central America
and the Middle East to assert that America often acts as a
"pillager-nation" concerned more with corporate profits and
cheap oil than with democracy and human rights; Arab
antipathy towards the U.S. is thus more a response to U.S.
economic imperialism than to religious or cultural
antagonisms. Drawing on memories of his father's struggle
against racism, he argues that blacks' experience of racial
injustice in the United States obligates them to sympathize
with oppressed peoples elsewhere and to understand (although
Mosley does not condone) the murderous rage directed at
America by many in the Muslim world. He exhorts blacks to
take the lead in resisting the current militaristic response
to terrorism and to demand that America harmonize its
foreign policy with its humanitarian ideals and with the
interests of the downtrodden "from Africa to Afghanistan."
Interweaving the personal and the polemical, Mosley aims to
shock readers out of their moral complacency; "It is up to
me," he writes, "to make sure that my dark-skinned brothers
and sisters around the world...are not enslaved, vilified,
and raped by my desire to eat
cornflakes or take a drive." Price $15.00(Hardback)
 David Miller - Lessons I Learned From My Father: A Collection of
Quotes from Men of African Descent
Lessons I Learned From My Father: A Collection of Quotes
from Men of African Descent is a must read for educators,
parents and youth whom struggle with the issue of
fatherhood. The book contains quotes and advice from men of
African descent from throughout the world whom are committed
to family life and development. The book addresses the issue
of the "Absent Daddy Club." The absent daddy club represents
millions of children whom do not have a responsible, sober,
spiritually guided father in their life. The forward of
Lesson I Learned From My Father was written by Richard Rowe
the Executive Director of the African American Male
Leadership Institute and organizations committed to
work with males.
Price $7.00
 Kwame
Ronnie Vanderhorst - Call Me A Playa Hater
Price $7.00
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