THE RED PILL

DIALOGUE AND DISCUSSION ON EDUCATION, ENVIRONMENT AND RACE

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Linking lyrics to statistics

The text in parentheses explains what relationship the words in this poem have to the concepts in epidemiology and stats... these are some tough relationships to remember but I thought that using something I like to do (writing poems and lyrics) would help me learn this high level math. Hope you can use this to assist you. It may not help you or make sense to you but it really has helped me.

Namaska

I'm trying to get a PhD

I took statistics but they still tryna…

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Added by Quita on March 12, 2011 at 1:30pm — 2 Comments

A Dozen Reason We Still Love "Boyz N The Hood"

If “Boyz N The Hood” should be remembered for anything, let it be for its exposure to a side of Los Angeles few living outside of the area were aware. The streets of South Central, Los Angeles and Compton were already getting a soundtrack due to the success of rap groups like N.W.A, but in “Boyz N The Hood”, those streets now had a motion picture to tell their story.

While a movie about one of America’s most notorious ghettos,… Continue

Added by E Donelson II on February 17, 2011 at 4:13pm — 4 Comments

http://rainbowsandlilacs.blogspot.com/2011/02/american-ministers-preachers-or-pimps.html

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Added by Gee Joyner on February 17, 2011 at 10:26am — No Comments

A Homeschooled child prodigy....GED to instructor at Berklee to Grammy winner Check out her site

http://www.berklee.edu/profiles/spalding.html

Added by Quita on February 17, 2011 at 10:00am — 3 Comments

Obama Is Not Your Nigga

http://rainbowsandlilacs.blogspot.com/2011/02/obama-is-not-your-nigga.html?showComment=1297566989935

Added by Gee Joyner on February 14, 2011 at 4:18pm — 2 Comments

short history of music

Click here and see if you might want to invest some time

http://afieldnegro.com/videos.html

THANK YOU BROTHER JOE D. BELL

Added by Clifford Black on February 11, 2011 at 6:32pm — 5 Comments

DESIDERATA

Learn this poem!!!!!

Max Ehrmann

Desiderata

Go placidly amid the noise and haste,

and remember what peace there may be in silence.

As far as possible without surrender

be on good terms with all persons.

Speak your truth quietly and clearly;

and listen to others,

even the dull and the ignorant;

they too have their story.

Avoid loud and aggressive persons,

they are…

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Added by Clifford Black on February 2, 2011 at 5:32pm — 15 Comments

Race, ethnicity and healthcare

http://www.kaiseredu.org/Tutorials-and-Presentations/Race-Ethnicity-and-Healthcare.aspx

Added by Quita on February 1, 2011 at 3:42pm — No Comments

Now THIS Is What I'm Talking About

http://blackhomeschoolers.com/2011/01/stephen-stafford-13-year-old-morehouse-sophomore/

Added by Vernessa McVay on January 27, 2011 at 10:44pm — 3 Comments

Is This a Sign of Things to Come?

Black Mother Jailed for Sending Kids to White School District

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Added by Vernessa McVay on January 24, 2011 at 11:30pm — 4 Comments

Race and health

I have wanted to ask this question... so here goes

I have attended the seminars on race and fully understand how this concept of race came about. I am working on my dissertation and the literature that I am reading refer to race as a characteristics that is a determinant of specific risk factors (high blood pressure, obesity, kidney disease, depression). When statistics were run on a study similiar to the one I am working on it "showed" that there was a significant difference of a…

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Added by Quita on January 13, 2011 at 4:51pm — 14 Comments

How one young man accomplished big things in small pieces

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94566019

Added by Quita on January 13, 2011 at 1:20pm — 3 Comments

Tiger mothers- Raising children the chinese way

Check out this podcast and share your thoughts.

http://www.npr.org/2011/01/11/132833376/tiger-mothers-raising-children-the-chinese-way

Added by Quita on January 13, 2011 at 1:18pm — 7 Comments

THE RACE MATRIX

ELEMENTARY QUESTIONS REGARDING THE SUBJECT OF RACE!!!

1.) WHAT IS YOUR DEFINITION OF RACE AND WHERE DOES YOUR WORLDVIEW OF THE SUBJECT HAVE ITS ORIGINS.?

2.) WHAT PART DID YOU PLAY IN CREATING THE CONSTRUCT THAT YOU CALL RACE?

We will begin our discussion with these two basic questions--then we can add more!!!!

The information below is the modern context relative…

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Added by Clifford Black on January 11, 2011 at 11:30am — 8 Comments

"Do you remember the time!"

Does anyone remember the times when people of color could only go to the basements of major department stores and shop? Or the times when people of color could only go to the balcony at certain theaters to watch movies? Growing up in St. Louis, I vaguely remember those times. I grew up thinking it was normal to shop in the basement at Famous Barr and Stix, Baer and Fuller. I thought that the balcony was, automatically, where we liked to sit at Loew's State and the Fox Theaters. I was…

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Added by Craig on January 10, 2011 at 10:00am — 1 Comment

Race a paradox? or Are you ready?

There was a program that aired on CNN concerning race. It was worth watching to see the children's reaction to it. It just happened to be about race in the United States. I deduced from viewing it that it may be a wise thing to de-label oneself especially if the label is false and ladened with shards of…

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Added by Aaron (Al) Lewis on January 2, 2011 at 6:00pm — 19 Comments

Four Questions

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1. What is it that you know that you know?

2. What is it that you know that you don't know?

3. What is it that you don't know that you know?

4. What is it that you don't know that you don't…

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Added by Aaron (Al) Lewis on December 31, 2010 at 7:00am — No Comments

The Portuguese in Africa in the 19th Century

As the European conquest of Africa unfolded, Portugal played the role of catalyst rather than leader. Hampered by its small size and weakened by several centuries of European warfare, Portugal was the smallest and poorest of Europe's imperial powers by the end of the 19th century. As a… Continue

Added by E Donelson II on November 28, 2010 at 12:00am — 1 Comment

Whole food nutrition

Getting better nutrition has been a focus of the last few months. I work for the maker of a whole food nutrition product and it has afforded me a ton of new information on eating enough fruits and vegetables. Whole foods, in simple terms, are unprocessed foods that provide large amounts of nutrients such as fruits, veggies, and whole grains, the stuff you find on the outermost areas of the grocery store. The Standard American Diet (S.A.D. < with all the reports of our health issues due to… Continue

Added by Kym Alexander on November 14, 2010 at 1:58am — 8 Comments