Category: Keeping It Real

Keeping it Real: IE’s Antiracist Summit Letting Go of Fear and Reaching for A Better Future . . . Together

Mar 23, 2021 | Keeping It Real

S. E. Williams | Executive Editor There is a Buddhist koan or teaching about a man who, while...

Keeping it Real: Two Wrongs Don’t Make Local Right-Wing Politicians Right

Mar 14, 2021 | Keeping It Real, Point of View

S.E. Williams | Executive Editor “There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under...

Keeping it Real: Does Power Corrupt Good People or Do We Give Power to Corrupt People?

Mar 9, 2021 | Keeping It Real

S. E. Williams | Voice Executive Editor “One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve...

Keeping it Real: Is Riverside County’s “Cancel Culture” Advocate an Advocate for Slavery?

Feb 28, 2021 | Keeping It Real, Point of View

S.E. Williams | Executive Editor “Every advocate of slavery naturally desires to see blasted, and...

Keeping it Real: The Myth of Fingerprints, Blacks and Vaccine Hesitancy

Feb 21, 2021 | Keeping It Real

S.E. Williams | Executive Editor No two people have identical prints, experts have claimed since...

Keeping it Real: Black History Was Always About #blackfuture

Feb 7, 2021 | Keeping It Real, Point of View

S.E. Williams | Executive Editor “This is so that the next generation and children not yet born...

Keeping it Real: An Ode to Little Big Man Sheriff Chad Bianco

Jan 31, 2021 | Keeping It Real

S.E. Williams | Executive Editor “Small minds cannot grasp great ideas; to their narrow...

Mourning in the Morning: Acknowledging Our Nation’s Collective Loss to Coronavirus

Jan 26, 2021 | Keeping It Real

S. E. Williams | Keeping it Real “Celebrate endings—for they precede new beginnings.” – ...

Keeping it Real—Among California’s Seditious Seven

Jan 17, 2021 | In My Opinion, Keeping It Real

S.E. Williams | Executive Editor “[N]ever play with insurrection unless you are fully prepared to...

Keeping it Real: The Day Trump Crossed the Rubicon

Jan 8, 2021 | Keeping It Real

S. E. Williams | Executive Editor “To see it unspool — to watch the jumbled images ricochet, live,...

Keeping it Real: School in the Spring? A Hard Choice for Parents of Color

Jan 3, 2021 | Keeping It Real

“Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.” Charles R. Swubdoll...

Keeping it Real: The Lessons of 2020

Dec 27, 2020 | Keeping It Real

S.E. Williams | Executive Editor “We hold tightly to the hope, the belief, the conviction there...

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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”...