Category: Keeping It Real

Keeping it Real: Riverside, Black Youth and Policing

May 24, 2021 | Keeping It Real

S. E. Williams | BVN Executive Editor “Life is a hurricane, and we board up to save what we can...

Keeping it Real: Post COVID-19 the Black Community Must Continue Pushing for Change

May 21, 2021 | Keeping It Real

S.E. Williams | BVN Executive Editor “Because we’ve grown so accustomed to being poor, we think...

Keeping it Real: A Mother’s Day Reflection

May 10, 2021 | Keeping It Real

S. E. Williams | Voice Executive Editor “ [W]hile individual experiences may vary—we speak...

Keeping it Real: Redistricting—Be Aware of Stacking, Packing, and Cracking

May 4, 2021 | Keeping It Real

S. E. Williams | BVN Executive Editor “Most of the time, we see only what we want to see, or what...

Keeping it Real: The Road to Abolition is Long and Littered with Broken Lives

Apr 27, 2021 | Keeping It Real

S. E. Williams | Voice Executive Editor “It’s easier to be ignorant and say I don’t know about the...

Keeping it Real: My Opinion, is My Opinion

Apr 20, 2021 | Keeping It Real

S. E. Williams | Voice Executive Editor “The right to speak guaranteed by the First Amendment to...

Keeping it Real: Contrary to Media Spin . . . Derek Chauvin Can Never Be a Blood Sacrifice

Apr 11, 2021 | Keeping It Real

S.E. Williams | Executive Editor “For me, no ideological or political conviction would...

Keeping it Real: Why They Killed the King

Apr 5, 2021 | Keeping It Real

S. E. Williams | Executive Editor “Once upon this planet earth, lived a man of humble birth,...

Keeping it Real: Two Public Health Directors in the IE are Out… A Coincidence or Not? I think Not!

Mar 28, 2021 | I.E. Community, Keeping It Real

S.E. Williams | Executive Editor “In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can...

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...

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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”...