literacy
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Maurice Jones-Drew, NFL Player's Association Partner With Goalsetter to Surprise Over 250 Students With Savings Accounts
In our quest to break generational curses, more and more Black folks are going to therapy and embracing financial literacy. I personally have made both a priority during the pandemic—I’m happy to report that my credit score no longer resembles my shoe size—and Black-owned finance app Goalsetter has positioned itself as an excellent resource to…
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R. Kelly Didn't Show Up to Court for Civil Sex Abuse Case Because He Can't Read, Lawyers Confirm
Robert “R.” Kelly’s illiteracy has been long reported, and the R&B artist has been transparent about such, particularly in that 19-minute song he asked people to suffer through. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, his lawyers are citing said literacy struggles in connection with his failure to appropriately respond to a sex abuse complaint. “Robert Sylvester…
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Washington State Bans Free Books to Prisoners for No Logical Reason
In a move that flies in the face of more than 45 years of practice with no incident, the Washington State Department of Corrections has moved forward with a policy denying books to prisons under the guise of safety. Book Riot reports that the Washington State DOC “quietly rolled out a new policy via a…
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Dear Black Boy: You Can Fly Even If You Can’t Run, Shoot or Dribble, Says Martellus Bennett
More than two years out, many of us still can’t stomach the sickening shooting deaths of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling by police. That senseless carnage, caught on video for all to see, sent millions reeling and many into action. Some marched, some knelt, some prayed, wept and/or raged on social media. Some, like NFL…
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Does Donald Trump Struggle With Reading? An Investigation
People across social media made fun of Donald Trump on Wednesday when he referred to the African country of Namibia as “Nambia.” Everyone laughed but me. Even though I am well-known for the sensitivity and politically correct tactfulness that I display on a regular basis (hey, don’t laugh!), there is another reason that I didn’t…
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Local Non-Profit Helps Los Angeles High School Students ‘Get Lit’
A Los Angeles-based nonprofit is helping local high school students to learn to love and appreciate poetry, and recently turned a group of them into published poets. Get Lit, founded in 2006 by Diane Luby Lane, is an organization that brings poetry into schools and “fuses classic and spoken word poetry to increase teen literacy…