Category: Keeping It Real

San Bernardino’s 2020 Census Response Rate to Date...

Jul 12, 2020 | Keeping It Real

America’s Shame…Healthcare in a Time of Cris...

Jun 30, 2020 | Keeping It Real

Tone Deaf

Jun 16, 2020 | Keeping It Real

“We starve, look at one another, short of breath,walking proudly in our winter coats, wearing...

In the Shade of Poplar Trees

Jun 8, 2020 | Keeping It Real

“Southern trees bear a strange fruit, blood on the leaves and blood at the root. Black bodies...

Bearing Witness to Injustice: From Ron Settles to George Floyd, Nothing’s Changed

May 31, 2020 | Keeping It Real

S.E. Williams | Contributor At the risk of appearing redundant, I want to mirror what others have...

John Benoit Detention Center—Looking Back to Look Forward

May 24, 2020 | Keeping It Real

“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So, you...

Essential, Not Sacrificial

May 16, 2020 | Keeping It Real

“Politics is about the participation and engagement of the wider citizenry—to miss that point...

Constituents, Critical of Supervisors, Demand an Opportunity for Input

May 9, 2020 | In The News, Keeping It Real

S.E. Williams | Contributor “The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the...

“Dear Mayor Valdivia, It is Passed Time for #YouToo, to Go”

May 3, 2020 | Keeping It Real

S.E. Williams | Contributor “His comments are not compliments or even propositions. They are...

It’s Time to Get Off the Sidelines and Get in the Game

Apr 27, 2020 | Keeping It Real

S.E. Williams | Contributor “We can and must move U.S. politics forward by means of committed...

Special Appreciation for a Mindful Judge

Apr 1, 2020 | Keeping It Real

“Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity, it is an act of justice. Like slavery and apartheid,...

History Will Not Forgive Us

Mar 24, 2020 | Keeping It Real

“We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice,...

As the Novel Coronavirus Spreads, We Must Be Our Brother’s Keeper

Mar 16, 2020 | Keeping It Real

“Kindness can transform someone’s dark moment with a blaze of light. You’ll never know how much...

Obama Care: “Weighing in the Balance” Before the U.S. Supreme Court . . . Again

Mar 10, 2020 | Keeping It Real

The passage of the Affordable Care Act affectionately referred to as “Obamacare” was a historic...

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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”...