Category: Rants & Raves

The Gore Collection of Rare African-American Artif...

Mar 4, 2018 | Rants & Raves

New West Valley Water District Ratepayers Associat...

Jan 14, 2018 | Rants & Raves

West Valley Water District Birds of Feathers Flock...

Jan 4, 2018 | Rants & Raves

Small Acts of Kindness in 2018

Jan 1, 2018 | Rants & Raves

Paulette Brown-Hinds, PhD Several years ago I wrote a column about how simple small acts of...

The Top 10 Reasons Why The West Valley Water District Looks A lot Like The City of Bell

Dec 16, 2017 | Rants & Raves

December 16, 2017 Paulette Brown-Hinds Historic silences have been broken and bad behavior has...

Learning from Lulamae

Dec 3, 2017 | Rants & Raves

Paulette Brown-Hinds, PhD Over one hundred friends and community leaders gathered to...

The Virtue of Gratitude

Nov 23, 2017 | Rants & Raves

I am grateful this holiday season to you – our dedicated readers – for supporting...

Investing in the Future of Our Community

Nov 22, 2017 | Rants & Raves

Last month I opened a fund at The Community Foundation for the work we are doing around digital...

CARB Facility Breaks Ground in Riverside

Nov 4, 2017 | Rants & Raves

Paulette Brown-Hinds, PhD Last week I sat next to a group of employees from the California Air...

Impressions of Blue Cut: Ruins / Renewal

Oct 28, 2017 | Rants & Raves

Written for the exhibition preface: Photographer Benoit Malphettes can see art in anything. A shoe...

Stimulating the Best & Brightest Minds

Oct 19, 2017 | Rants & Raves

Paulette Brown-Hinds, PhD This week The Center for Investigative Reporting released a report...

Celebrate 50 Years With Me

Oct 18, 2017 | Rants & Raves

I usually do not have big birthday celebrations; in fact one of the only big parties I...

Liberty Lane: Leaving A Legacy We Can Be Proud Of

Sep 22, 2017 | Rants & Raves

Paulette Brown-Hinds, PhD Several years ago Mrs. Charlotte, my mother’s best friend, asked...

The Power of the Purse

Aug 31, 2017 | Rants & Raves

Last November I was honored to participate in the Association of Fundraising Professionals’...

Responses to Last Week’s Publisher’s Notes

Aug 27, 2017 | Rants & Raves

Paulette Brown-Hinds, PhD The conversation continues as more cities address the question:...

Dr Main Sidebar

ACROBATIC MATHEMATICAL THINKING (6)

A powerful Creative and Critical Thinking exercise is to first learn shapes of the Pyramid, Square, Trapezius, Trapezoid, Rectangle, Triangle, Circle, Octagon, Ellipse, Lunette; study which are Cosmic and/or and human-made; and determine what are indications for using...

MATHEMATICS OF AFRICAN TRADITION FOR BLACK YOUTH (5)

Patterns, Shapes, and Forms are fundamental tools to help one see and give meaning to Real, Surreal, and Unreal Things. These contribute to understanding and the explaining of Principles (unchanging realities), Events (changing realities), Settings, Situations, and...

***AFRICAN UBUNTU IS SPIRITUAL “ME/WE” (1)

“ME/WE” is an: "All for One, One for all" concept of African Zulus, called Ubuntu. The Nguni Bantu define it as connection of all “Humanity”—meaning its “Sameness” creation is the Cosmic Force. They translate it as: “I am because we are”; or “Humanity towards others”...