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March 9th: Critical Race Theory, Breitbart, and What Biggie Has To Do With It
Mo the Educator’s critical analysis of the controversy surrounding Barack Obama’s connection to critical race theory.
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Paris vs Poorest: Occupy the Throne? Or Rip it From its Foundation?
Released 47 years to the day after the assassination of Malcolm X, Yasiin Bey offers the video for his counternarrative to Jay-Z and Kanye’s luxury rap, club-banger. Equipped with the glyph and all – the stylized Arabic writing for “Yasiin” flashes on the screen throughout the video – the emcee formerly known as Mos Def…
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Educator’s Response: Teacher’s Smack-Down on Black Children
I’m gonna take a different approach on this one. Before that though, let me honor this man for handling these two children exactly as he should have. Two adolescent boys squaring each other up aren’t going to pay attention to “gentle verbal warnings” or even stern ones from a seated teacher. Beyond “showing them who’s…
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On Ice Cube: Gangster Rapper. Disney Producer. Dad. Who Defines “Real”?
I was watching Ice Cube’s Behind the Music the other day, and had a few things cross my mind. Let me start here: I’m an N.W.A. apologist. I purchased and really liked the first two tapes, “N.W.A. and the Posse“ and “Straight Outta Compton“. I had seen political hip-hop artists, but I don’t think I…
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Blame It on Black Male Pathology: Why Bella Gonzalez Can’t Just Have a Fatty
During this weekend’s main event, Showtime Pay-Per-View sandwiched eight rounds of anti-climactic boxing between two spectacular events. If you watched the fight, you saw them: in round 3, Manny Pacquiao hit Shane Mosley with a beautiful straight left that put him on the canvas, and drew the obligatory “Ohhhhh!” from the guys with whom I…
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Amazing Grace, How Dangerous You Sound
Mo the Educator offers his commentary on Harvard Law Review editor and third-year law student Stephanie Grace’s email in which she indicated that she would not, “…rule out the possibility that African Americans are, on average, genetically predisposed to be less intelligent.”
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The Achievement Gap Problem Hits Home. Literally.
Mo the Educator writes about an issue in education that hits close to home for him literally and figuratively: how to properly educate Black children. In this case, a Black school principal’s career may be in jeopardy. Is his heart the only thing that’s in the right place?