Millionaire Mind Kids (MMK)

This may be the first step into system education's equity, diversity and inclusion. Your thoughts?

BLACK HISTORICAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO AMERICA'S HISTORY. TODAY I CELEBRATE: NANNIE HELEN BURROUGHS Denied a teaching job for being ‘too Black,’ she started her ow...n school and a movement. The problem was not her credentials. Nannie Helen Burroughs had graduated with honors from the prestigious M Street High School in the nation’s capital. Nor did being African American disqualify her; the administrators were hiring people of color to teach in the city’s segregated schools. Still, Burroughs’s job application to a D.C. public school was rejected in the 1890s, likely because of the prejudice of colorism a preference for lighter-skinned staff. Put simply, historians say, the Black people doing the hiring believed her to be too Black. An idea was struck out of the suffering of that disappointment that I would some day have a school here in Washington that school politics had nothing to do with, and that would give all sorts of girls a fair chance, Burroughs would later write. It came to me like a flash of light, and I knew I was to do that thing when the time came. Burroughs decided that if she could not get a job as a teacher, she would start her own school. And that school was only the beginning of a long and illustrious career as an educator, orator, businesswoman, religious leader, and activist. She would build or lead nearly a dozen prominent organizations, winning her a place among luminaries of the time, rubbing elbows with Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Dubois, and Carter G. Woodson, and later spending time with a young Martin Luther King Jr. Burroughs was so well-known, that after she spoke out against President Woodrow Wilson’s inaction on the problem of lynching, the president had her placed under surveillance.

Before complaining about life during this pandemic and not being able to do stuff, think again. Be grateful for what you have. Let your God be your strength and... your guide. This will pass and your experience will encourage someone else. I think and pray for each one of you watching this and internalizing the greatness that lies within you. Be blessed. See more

CELEBRATING WOMEN OF COLOR EVENT: Please see details below;

Register Now for this training: http://bit.ly/2MPAL5P As part of the Intersection Housing Committee Stephanie (Vida) Pazarin and Jennifer Neri will be hosting a Housing Advocacy Training for residents of the High Desert. See flyer & link for details

Measuring African American Achievement to EXCELLENCE!!! Comparing African American Achievement to EXCELLENCE!!!! Competing African American Achievement with EXCELLENCE!!!

EXCELLENCE AS WE KNOW IT TODAY. Who is Dr. Kizzie? Let's get to know her.

EXCELLENCE AS WE KNOW IT TODAY

Measured only by EXCELLENCE