Ivory A. Toldson, Ph.D.
ARTICLES:
What Black High School Grads Need to Hear
Show Me the Numbers: Graduation speakers often opt for tough love. Here's what they should say instead.
Black Male Teachers: Becoming Extinct?
Show Me the Numbers: There are more African-American male educators than recent reports suggest.
Retire the Myth: Black Men, Jail and College
Show Me the Numbers: More on the falsehood and how it's caused a missed opportunity to solve real issues.
More Black Men in Jail Than in College? Wrong
Show Me the Numbers: A 13-year-old report using questionable data gave rise to an enduring myth.
Massacres, Mental Health and Black Kids
Show Me the Numbers: As Newtown coverage conflates mental illness and violence, students may suffer.
How Race Matters in the Classroom
Show Me the Numbers: Do black kids have problems in schools because so few teachers look like them?
Coming of Age Amid the Ashes of the Black Power Movement
In a piece for EmPower magazine, Dr. Ivory Toldson reflects on the effect his relationship with his own stepfather and with Tupac Shakur's had on his understanding of oppression and activism.
BLOG POSTINGS:
How Will Obama Handle HBCUs?
As we count down the days to a second term, a look at the president's record on black colleges.