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Black. Female. Accomplished. Attacked. - washingtonpost.com

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Black. Female. Accomplished. Attacked. - washingtonpost.com

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/...

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Smokey Robinson - Defining African American

May 1, 2008
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Source from youtube but this was on Def Poetry Jam

And guess what else..at :30 is yours truly. I am the dot to the left of him in all black with a scarf around my neck (like that will help you figure out this is me) [I went to Def Poetry on a whim one day and was lucky enough to sit in the front. I went by myself so that was a plus because I may not have been able to sit in the front!]

smokey robinson poetry

Yes, I know he uses the N word. It is complex issue. I just cannot go and explain it anymore. I have my blogs on this and will repost if interested. I know I am not a N but for those knuckleheads who have to continuously refer to themselves as the N word then you know who you are as you read. Further, I am not just saying black people who call themselves the N word, I am saying this to other people who want to be *down* and say yeah, I am a N. Then, Smokey is speaking to you too.

Black ballerina discussion outside the USA

Apr 12, 2008
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Thank you, Cecily, for posting this link on your blog:

Young, gifted - and ignored - The Guardian

**I've written up and posted links on this issue in America.
Check my Aesha Ash, Misty Copeland tag and ballet tag.

Black and Missing but not Forgotten

Jan 23, 2008
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Black and Missing but not Forgotten

http://blackandmissing.blogspot.com/

Repost from www.whataboutdaughters.comTwo mothers killed while holding their babiesJordan Hunt (23 months), his mother, Gina Hunt (24), Charlii Yarrell (4 months), and her mother Andrea Yarrell, 24 were shot to death late last Monday. All died at the house where they lived except for Charlii who later died in the hospital. Both mothers were holding their child when they were killed.Two handguns were found within a block of the house, where all four of those killed lived, said Sgt. Matthew Mount, a police spokesman."Whoever is responsible for this, we're going to track you down like dogs," Marion County Sheriff Frank Anderson said. "We're not going to stop until we find you and put you in a cage where you belong."Annie Boyd, the mother of Andrea Yarrell's boyfriend, told The Indianapolis Star that her son heard a gunshot while he was on the phone with Yarrell.Gene Boyd, who is in the Indianapolis Men's Work Release Center on charges in a drug case, told his mother he heard someone break into the home."He heard the shot, then heard Gina holler out: 'Those are my babies!"' Annie Boyd said. "After that the phone went dead."Gene Boyd then called his mother, who called 911.A set of scales, several weapons, a safe and one pound of what is believed to be marijuana were found in the house, Talley-Sanders said. She said police had been called to the home three times in 2007 to investigate reports of armed robbery, burglary of a resident and a stolen vehicle."There's just a number of factors that have to be looked at," Mount said. "Because of the things that were found at the scene they are going to look at every possible motive.[Source]Last Thursday, Jasper Frazier, 36 turned himself in to the police but said that even though he was at the scene, he did not pull the trigger."I ain't kill them kids, man," Frazier said, speaking from Toledo. "I'm not running. I'm turning myself in with my family. The people that killed the kids, they was going to kill me," he said.Two other ...

Denial of Transportation to Children in NYC who attend certain schools

Oct 24, 2007
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FYI
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Here is an article about the school's learning style that recently ran in the NYTimes.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B00EEDC123BF930A1575AC0A9619C8B63

Here is the website to the NYC School OPT

http://www.opt-osfns.org/opt/

Here is the letter that I am sending out.

To Whom It May Concern,

As a concerned parent of a child at the “47” The American Sign Language
and English Lower School, I am deeply concerned about the busing
debacle. In the past every student in the lower school was offered
busing to and from school, but now there seems to be a problem. In
fact, over 40 children have not received their schedules yet and it is
October. Out of the 40 children, 15 have had to switch schools, 13 have been denied buses even though they have IEDs and 12 are hearing with deaf parents or family members. Our school has only 260 kids going there.

PS 347 is different than other schools because it offers services to
deaf children and also children who have parents/ family members that
are deaf. Do you know how important that is? That means that a child
who is normally lost in the system because they cannot hear... will be
able to have access to education. It also means that if I am a deaf
parent, I don't have to struggle with getting a translator that takes
weeks to request to communicate with my child's teacher.

The deaf community is more than just people who can't hear and we deserve dignity in all things too. (LAU vs. Nicholas is a case similar to Brown vs. BOE).

Moreover, most of the children that have been trapped in the red tape
of this busing situation are poor children of color who don't have
access to translators to speak for their parents or the ability to
fight for themselves.

This is not just a little short bus problem that can be swept under a
rug, but I think the brink of a civil rights issue. It’s not fair. We
talk a whole lot about standing up for our children. Does that mean, we
only stand up for the ones that have physical distinctions that get
high profile activist to shout and kick up dust? Does it have to be
based on race, religion or dare I say sexual preferences? Or can we
stand up against discriminatory disregard based on the lack of concern
or understanding of the need to accommodate a school for the deaf that
is open to all people.

Thank you for your attention and I am available to further discuss the
resolution of our school's busing problem immediately. You can reach me
via email: duncansmithn@aol.com <mailto:duncansmithn@aol.com>

Please help,

Nicole Duncan-Smith