Introducing USA Radical Black – the New “Brother” Blog of IBNN
By Kandis Style – Staff Journalist/IBNN
London, UK/Minneapolis, MN. – Nov. 12 / IBNN News/ – USA Radical Black is pleased to announce the launch of its controversial new web site www.usaradicalblack.com . The site is the result of the massive demand for information related to the American Black experience. Our goal is to provide our visitors with a virtual experience that is compelling and life altering and to inspire the marginalized, and voiceless.
“The virtual world can never match being present at a protest, or a rally; however, we strive to ignite a cyber movement “in real time” every day,” say Don Allen, Editor in Chief of IBNN and Minister of Information for USA Radical Black.
User can easily access archival and cross-referenced information and use our links and references for researching issues and forming their own opinions. The upgraded site also enables our online visitors and members an easy, instant, and secure way to register for programs, make donations, and purchase products from USA Radical Black online store.
The site allows our visitors to create individual profiles indicating specific topics of interest for communications and specialized website content. Users will also enjoy that their profiles will be securely saved for future transactions and can be updated at any time by logging in. Bookmarking and social media tags are also embedded throughout the site so that visitors can share USA Radical Black news and information with others on sites like Facebook, MySpace, and Del.icio.us.
In the future, expect to see live webcasts, high profile interviews, watch dog activities, and strategic alliances with progressive organizations that truly make a difference in people’s lives.
About USA Radical Black
“USA Radical Black – Truth to the People/Power to the People…Now!”
USA Radical Black was created by the Independent Business News Networks editor in chief Donald W.R. Allen, II to address disparities in Black and minority-ethnic leadership roles in the United States.
USA Radical Black also covers News and Information about Politics, Education, Money, Community, Religion, Race, Status and Class as it relates to us.
USA Radical Black is themed to be a “wake-up call” to people of color in the United States who have done the same thing the same way, creating insanity by electing the same party officials that have created problems over-and-over again while in the background tasking people they feel comfortable with to “solve” problems for pay and political favors.
We will explore the changing of the Black Church as it pertains to us as a people of color getting back to our roots with God, Family and Prosperity. Does a well funded Foundation or Social Service Agency have more power than GOD?
Join USA Radical Black for Truth to the People and Power to the People – if not now, when?
Minneapolis Public Schools continue to fail children of color – Public Hearing on Education to be held (10/22/09)
By Donald W.R. Allen,II – Editor in Chief IBNN (Comments are welcomed at info@ibnn.org or by clicking here.)
“Education is a process. If the focus of the process is on the wrong product (teachers, money) we get the wrong results. We need to set the standards for and focus on the kids like they do in prep schools. The goal should be a kid with all the tools to enter and succeed in college. Then he or she can choose if college is right for him or her”.
…John Sousa-Facebook
The video above features four of the brightest young Black children in the Public School System. By their answers, its clear that they are not being challenged.
L.J. 8; LaMonty 7; Davy 6 and little LaShieya 3 years-old. Their mother Shay, had this to say: “As a parent, I stayed up all night thinking about the answers my children gave. It may me think why don’t my children know about other choices and I have to remind them that they can be anything they want. Secondly, what are the schools teaching them. We have to look at the problems in our public schools immediately. If this is all the Minneapolis Public Schools has to offer Black children, its time the community come together and hold them in contempt for not teaching our children.”
Minneapolis, MN (October 16, 2009)…A Public Hearing on Education will be held on Thursday, October 22, 2009 from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at Pierre Bottineau Library located at 55 Broadway St NE in Minneapolis.
This panel discussion will include community members and representatives from the Minneapolis Chapter of the NAACP and the African-American Community Alliance.
Fact: The Minneapolis Public School System is failing children of color.
The Star Tribune’s October 14th article “Minnesota Math Scores: good but not the best,” this article hints there is a glimmer of hope for the public school systems. However, after reading the article and looking at the Minnesota Department of Education’s website, you will see the test results for inner city schools continuing to decline.
While the Minnesota Department of Education has detailed the Functional Requirements for the 2009 No Child Left Behind – Adequate Yearly Progress Calculations with charts, graphs and statistics, inner city schools in Minneapolis and surrounding suburbs with large populations of children of color consistently do not make the grade.
Children of color should aspire to become doctors, lawyers and bankers. The reality is that children are not being mentored in the direction needed to facilitate those dreams. The public school system must be held accountable for the lack of nurturing an educational foundation that has bypassed children of color.
When we ask children of color, “What do want to be when you grow up?” We get answers like football and basketball players and the most sought after career, “Rapper.”
Something is very wrong with a child in the public schools wanting to be a Rapper.
On a funding note, this hearing will also address question to the Minneapolis Public Schools System like, “Where did the $8.6 million of SES (Supplemental Educational Services) dollars go? Where did the Compensatory Education Dollars go? Where did the Title I Behavior dollars go?
And where did the Referendum Dollars go?
More importantly, what happened to the $103,770.00 gifted to the Minneapolis Urban League for marketing SES after school tutoring programs? What happened to the “Covenant?”
Where is the report?
We only hope there is someone is there to answer the questions.
IBNN has sent several requests to the Minneapolis Public Schools Dan Lowenson to obtain information on the report.
No reply has been forwarded.
Join the African American Community Alliance, NAACP and concerned community members for the Hearing on Public Education.
For more information, contact Sarah Younus at sarah.younus@gmail.com for more information.
Keep City-Wide Busing for South High School as a Magnet Program – Keep Choice & Minneapolis South High School a Magnet. Sign the Petition!
Sign the petition here: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/southhighschool/ – Keep City-Wide Busing for Minneapolis South High School as a Magnet Program
“The Minneapolis Public School board and the DFL (yes, the DFL) are trying to divide us, and we (Native Minnesotans) are not having it. This is the final crack in the Dr. Green legacy. Parents, students, alumni, teachers, staff who are concerned with future of MPS high school reform, that it needs to be thoughtful and consider the benefit to all students, where access is the approach to equity.”
The petition:
DISRUPTIVE CHANGE IS COMING TO MINNEAPOLIS SOUTH!
Is this change that will work?
Minneapolis’ South High School is a thriving city-wide magnet–a hybrid of All Nations, Liberal Arts and Open programs. It has demonstrated strong academic outcomes in a diverse population of students, is highly requested by families in many parts of Mpls and is recognized by district research as providing a unique and respectful learning climate.
Changes proposed in CSO clearly appear to dismantle this successful, diverse, cost effective and high-demand school community. There has been little public input, and the proposed changes are an afterthought for “right sizing” MPS high schools. The changes seem guided more by busing and economics than improving achievement for South’s students. Yet CSO will impact the education and culture of nearly 2000 South High students!
We request that the Minneapolis Public School Board of Education:
1. Vote “NO” for CSO for high schools on Tuesday, September 22nd.
2. Keep high school choice available (equity means more than placing the same programs in every school building).
3. Maintain South High School–All Nations, Open and Liberal Arts–as a district-wide magnet site.
4. Halt the high school redesign process. Gain more community input and gather the latest research, specific to high schools and adolescents, that will allow for prudent and strategic high school redesign for the benefit of the future of all Minneapolis Public Schools.
This petition will be mailed (USPS and e-format) to the MPS Board of Education by September 21, 2009. If you support our efforts to maintain school choice, preserve South High School as a city-wide magnet program, and encourage strategic high school redesign, please add your signature below. (Please note that only people who are Minneapolis residents, current students and families, or alumni and alumni parents may sign this petition.)
Rich, Black, Flunking
“Cal Professor John Ogbu thinks he knows why rich black kids are failing in school. Nobody wants to hear it.”
By Susan Goldsmith (Re-printed with permission of East Bay Express News by Nate Seltenrich, Clubs Editor/Editorial Coordinator East Bay Express, 1335 Stanford Ave., Suite 100 / Emeryville, CA 94608 – 510.879.3773 (02/2009). Visit East Bay Express News at www.eastbayexpress.com for more fine articles.
The black parents wanted an explanation. Doctors, lawyers, judges, and insurance brokers, many had come to the upscale Cleveland suburb of Shaker Heights specifically because of its stellar school district. They expected their children to succeed academically, but most were performing poorly. African-American students were lagging far behind their white classmates in every measure of academic success: grade-point average, standardized test scores, and enrollment in advanced-placement courses. On average, black students earned a 1.9 GPA while their white counterparts held down an average of 3.45. Other indicators were equally dismal. It made no sense.
John Ogbu has been compared to Clarence Thomas, denounced by the Urban League, and criticized in The New York Times.
When these depressing statistics were published in a high school newspaper in mid-1997, black parents were troubled by the news and upset that the newspaper had exposed the problem in such a public way. Seeking guidance, one parent called a prominent authority on minority academic achievement.
UC Berkeley Anthropology Professor John Ogbu had spent decades studying how the members of different ethnic groups perform academically. He’d studied student coping strategies at inner-city schools in Washington, DC. He’d looked at African Americans and Latinos in Oakland and Stockton and examined how they compare to racial and ethnic minorities in India, Israel, Japan, New Zealand, and Britain. His research often focused on why some groups are more successful than others.
But Ogbu couldn’t help his caller. He explained that he was a researcher — not an educator — and that he had no ideas about how to increase the academic performance of students in a district he hadn’t yet studied. A few weeks later, he got his chance. A group of parents hungry for solutions convinced the school district to join with them and formally invite the black anthropologist to visit Shaker Heights. Their discussions prompted Ogbu to propose a research project to figure out just what was happening. The district agreed to finance the study, and parents offered him unlimited access to their children and their homes.
Read the full story at HERE.
Minnesota Department of Education needs to take a closer look at service providers for SES Title I after school tutoring “outreach” for failing African-American children and other children of color
"And the agencies that don't deliver."
I call for an overhaul because I find that two contact agencies – the Minneapolis Urban League and Front Street Marketing are abusing the current practices. At this writing we allege the two organizations also are in violation of the United States Federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, which pertains to the way a public entity conducting business with vendors outside the laws of the bid process, allowing for fair practice and competition.
The Minneapolis Urban League and Front Street Marketing are in violation of the RICO Act because the Urban League has signed an agreement to be the fiduciary agent for Front Street Marketing, a for-profit marketing company, located inside of the Urban League headquarters at 2100 Plymouth Avenue North. The actions involving possible violations of RICO were a lack of bid process funneling contract(s) directly to Front Street Marketing without a RFP (Request for Proposal) for contract services. This activity also brings about a Conflict of Interest that can be defined as any situation in which an individual or corporation (either private or governmental) is in a position to exploit a professional or official capacity in some way for their personal or corporate benefit.
Front Street Marketing intends to conduct marketing and community-outreach initiatives on behalf of the Minneapolis Public School System for the Title I SES after-school tutoring project in Minneapolis. With a number of major public failures by Front Street Marketing, (read here) – why would the MUL contract with the agency? The line items written in the contract developed between Front Street Marketing and the Minneapolis Urban League for the Minneapolis Public School System are as follows:
- Develop new and creative methods that effectively inform high school students, parents and guardians about Title I SES tutoring services;
- Share information with high school students and family members about the value that Title I SES tutoring services offer;
- Work with MPS and existing SES providers to align state standards for grade-levels and the school curriculum to the regular activity that occurs at each SES provider site;
- Provide follow-up with high school students who are enrolled in SES tutoring to provide motivation and accountability for attending;
- Follow-up with high school students who have not enrolled in SES tutoring services to determine the reason(s) and continue to try and motivate engagement;
- Identify an SES provider pilot site and/or sites at which staff will connect with high school students and family members on a personal basis to enhance attendance at regular school, engagement in tutoring services, and consistent completion of homework.
I ask the Minnesota Department of Education and the Minneapolis Public School System, who is to be held accountable to monitor the business practices of these two organizations? Before the project was assigned to Front Street Marketing and its fiduciary agent, the Minneapolis Urban League, who was to be held accountable to determine whether the research conducted was valid, and whether the prescribed deliverables would be appropriate and effective?
During the summer of 2008, at the request of Mr. Al Flowers, who was representing the Minneapolis Urban League and Front Street Marketing, I met with Ms. Kristen Schroeder of the “No Child Left Behind Program” within the Minneapolis Public Schools. Al Flowers established a verbal contract with me on behalf of the Minneapolis Urban League to write a Memorandum of Understanding for the seven faith-based, after-school tutoring hubs, conduct research and write the SES application. All of this work involved daily communication with Ms. Schroeder via the telephone, and as many as five scheduled meetings.
The Memorandum of Understanding required several re-writes to ensure that the faith-based organizations obtained the proper liability insurance, as well as qualified personnel. I submitted an invoice to Mr. Flowers and Front Street Marketing for payment of services to my firm. AS of today’s date, I have received no payment for my services. Instead, I’ve had my life threatened, and I’ve been told that I would receive no payment for my services. Yes, these are the same people the Minneapolis Public School System has placed in charge of outreach initiatives for our children.
During a recent meeting (the week of 1/19/09) with the district, Al Flowers was called to the MPS to discuss the marketing and an alleged confidentiality agreement, I learned that the Minneapolis Urban League’s Board of Directors have not been briefed about the $103,770, nor have they been informed of the alleged meeting..More importantly, they are not aware that no work has been delivered to date.
The $103,770 contract with the Minneapolis Urban League and Front Street Marketing could have been used more effectively to attract the groups of students targeted to participate in the tutoring program. A more effective solution would have been to contact with a firm that has a history and years of experience developing and implementing marketing programs and community outreach initiatives.
A Vote of “No Confidence” for the Minneapolis Urban League and the Minneapolis Public Schools
This is part 2 in a 4 part series titled, “103,770.00 – Without a Trace”
The Minneapolis Public Schools and the Minneapolis Urban League has done a great injustice to Black students in Minneapolis.
Just to clarify what’s going on here. The following information would never be reported in the local newspapers. Things are not well in the Black community. While deals are being cut in back rooms, our leaders have dropped off the face of the earth. Furthermore, the inability to be creative in business finances has left the people that truly need services out in the cold. People will de-frame this story (Meaning: Changing the real perception of an event, circumstance or situation and re-placing it with one that is less controversial, false and misleading to shun all investigations or allegations about the organizations progress.)
This story and many more is an effort put forward to alert the hard working citizens in the Twin Cities that in some cases the underserved community will always be at the short end of the stick because of few people that don’t know what sound business practices are.
This injustice is reflected with the information provided by the Minneapolis Public Schools in a document titled, “Minneapolis Public Schools: Student Placement Services” which showed that from 2006 to present over 14,069 “actions” were taken against Black students in comparison to 1190 “actions” for White students with days missed in school for Black students 32,264 compared to 2976 for White students in the Minneapolis Public Schools from 2006 to 2008 (Y-T-D).
With over 178 non-profits doing business in north Minneapolis (including parks and churches), you would think that the achievement gap in the Minneapolis Public Schools would be addressed before it got to this point. I don’t work for a north Minneapolis social service agency but my first question would be: “With the above facts – why haven’t the Black social service agencies in north Minneapolis demanded a permanent change in administration, teachers and policy to address this heinous disparity and educational impotence toward our children?” Secondly, the north Minneapolis social service agency at the heart of this issue, the Minneapolis Urban League has not addressed this issue in the last 5 years, nor have they met with Minneapolis Public School officials to actively create an after school study program funded by the Minneapolis Public Schools that would address the achievement gap.
Still some creditable underlying facts remain that might show why the MUL has not been able to make the grade:
1. After the Minneapolis Urban League lost over $700,000.00 for their Truancy Program in 2007 (no application submitted-deadline missed) they have done nothing to regain or build capacity to address the very important issues of CHILDREN, STUDENTS and the MINNEAPOLIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS!
2. In the last 10 years the Minneapolis Urban League has lost over $3 million dollars in funding – reasons: from lack of capacity and guidance to complete paperwork to social service cuts are just a few reasons why.
3. When large dollar amounts are given as a grant to the MUL, the organization goes outside of the community to sub-contract with people who don’t live in the community to provide services which creates an economic “stop-gap” which prevents the further education, wealth and independence of people in the community. (i.e.; Health Program, ACORN/S.H.A.R.K.-Housing foreclosure counseling)
(Side bar: The Minneapolis City Council and Mayor R.T. Rybak approved a spending plan Friday, Nov. 21 to use $5.6 million in federal Neighborhood Stabilization funds to acquire and redevelop foreclosed properties in neighborhoods hardest hit by foreclosures (North Minneapolis). Most of the back room deals have already be cut and of course the Minneapolis Urban League is nowhere in sight. The foreclosure crisis could have been solved in North Minneapolis with some smart thinking and the $100 million dollars already wasted on “programs” for families in foreclosure.)
With over an estimated $25 Million dollars in Title I money which detoured the Black community, the Minneapolis Urban League and its Board of Directors approved to be Fiduciary Agents for a marketing company inside the Minneapolis Urban League that would bring no dollars, hope or “change” to the Black students in the Minneapolis Public Schools.
The amount of money that the Minneapolis Urban League received – get this…for another company inside the Minneapolis Urban League for “outreach” was $103,770.00 (on record so far). $103,770.00 is only 0.4 percent of an estimated $25 million dollars in Title I monies meant to assist all children in school – the Minneapolis Urban League has sold out the community.
This is an embarrassment to the Black community, families and children in Minneapolis.
From the perspective of a conspiracy theorist and understanding the dysfunctional state of organizations, people and procedures – the Minneapolis Urban League had the opportunity to make an impact and FORCE the Minneapolis Public Schools to address the achievement gap by going after the Title I money with the facts already known by the Minneapolis Public Schools and Minnesota Department of Education. Accepting 0.4% (it’s actually less) of possible dollars from the Minneapolis Public Schools/Title I dollars showed “weakness” by the MUL and let the powers that oversee our children in the Minneapolis Schools know that we, (Blacks) can be “brought-off” for little or nothing. This is not the first time this has happened with the Minneapolis Public Schools and a north Minneapolis “educational-social service agency” – but an ongoing trend happening in our community and across the United States that is simply kept quite but says, “If we give them a little money – they’ll go away.” This attitude will only last as long as the residents of north Minneapolis let these “bad cooks” stay in charge of our destiny.
Families, Parents, Students and the North Minneapolis Community must stand up now and stop apologizing for living in North Minneapolis and being Black, Hispanic-Latino, Asian, and Somali. We must ask for a permanent change in the way the Minneapolis Urban League and Minneapolis Public Schools with the Minnesota Department of Education tags and bags our children. Let’s start on today by calling the Minneapolis Urban League at (612) 302-3100 and ask to speak to the President. Ask the person you get on the phone, “What are you doing to address the achievement gap in the Minneapolis Public Schools?” Please let IBNN know what answers you get by leaving a comment at www.ibnn.org.
At the end of the day, it’s not about the Minneapolis Urban League; Minneapolis Public Schools or even this media company. At the end of the day it has always been about the children of Minneapolis.
Without the correct “process, people and problem solving” at local social service agencies in north Minneapolis including the Minneapolis Urban League our children will continued to be doomed by a few point people that will take the money with no deliverables!
(Part 3 – “A Dying Mothers Plea to the Minneapolis Urban League Goes Unanswered” – A young mother of six, dying of Cancer gets a check that bounces and receives no assistance in her time of need – an IBNN exclusive interview.)
Sabathani Community Center in the business of serving People!
As part of their ongoing community engagement, Minneapolis premiere restaurant SEVEN located in downtown Minneapolis has teamed up with local Social Networking giants IAMMOODY.COM and MINNAGE.COM to host the only event you want to attend a day before Thanksgiving.
The most important part of this unique event is “giving.” SEVEN, IAMMOODY and MINNAGE ask that all attendees bring either hats, gloves, socks, winter ware or items to make sure that no one in our community has to suffer this winter season. The “Dream Team” SEVEN, IAMMOODY and MINNAGE has teamed up with Minneapolis flagship social service agency Sabathani Community Center located in South Minneapolis as part of Sabathani’s ongoing commitment to the community to partner with private sector entities to promote and engage the needs of the community.
Sabathani Community Center’s motto – “Sabathani – getting people up and rising to reclaim their power for self-determination.” Sabathani goes on to say, “In order to achieve self-sufficiency, families need a firm foundation – a nurturing, safe and supportive environment. Sabathani helps community members reach their fullest potential by focusing on life skills, self-reliance, job readiness, basic needs, education and school success. Our mission is to strengthen youth, children and families and to build the capacity of the community that Sabathani serves.”
In an interview earlier this year with Sabathani Community Center’s Executive Director Mr. Ernest Johnson, Johnson said, “It is important to assist people with whatever needs they have no matter what situation they are in. The recent cuts in social service budget don’t mean you lay off staff or cut services – it’s just an opportunity to do more with less by being creative.”
Sabathani Community Center is home for over 40 different organizations that help people achieve their maximum potential. From HIV/AIDS awareness and counseling to Clothing and Food Shelf, HIRED, or the offices for the NAACP-Minnesota, Sabathani has maintained a consistent flow of information to the community while providing the “top-of-mind” services needed in these hard economic times. To make a financial donation to Sabathani Community Center, please call (612) 821-2323 for more information or visit their website at www.sabathani.org.
We invite everyone down to SEVEN next week for the Red Carpet Event in celebration of the new 007- James Bond movie “QUANTUM OF SOLACE” – dress to impress!
More information:
This event will take place on Wednesday, November 26, 2008 at Seven located at 700 Hennepin Avenue in downtown Minneapolis on the corners of Hennepin and 7th starting at 7:00 p.m., for more information call (612) 238-7770. There will be $7.00 Cocktails and Martini’s themed after James Bond films and its characters.
1st floor is Sean Connery; 2nd Floor is Roger Moore, 3rd floor is Daniel Craig.
First 200 people that drop off gloves, hats, or socks for Sabathani Community Center & Domestic Abuse Project will receive a gift bag complements of Seven; Galleria Gift Card; Metro Magazine; Bella Salon; Ice Scrapers and many more. Minneapolis/St. Paul’s #1 Event Coordinating Firm, IamMoody.com will provide the Bond Girls showcasing fashions from Bumbershute -with Hair and Make-up by Bella Salon with Jewelry by Rox.
Come early for great drink specials and complimentary hors D’oeuvres catered by Seven Sushi/Steakhouse.
Think you’ll win big like Bond? Every winner gets a raffle ticket with a chance to win something from our sponsors. Photos will be taken by Minneapolis/St. Paul’s #1 Entertainment Marketing and Networking Firm – Minnage.com! Minnage.com will be there snapping photos of all the well dressed people. Get ready for your 15 minutes of fame at SEVEN!
***Don’t forget the drive for Domestic Abuse Project and Sabathani Community Center. Bring in NEW scarves, hats, gloves, mittens, and socks to help keep our community warm year round! (All sizes for all ages) First 200 get a gift bag.
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· We are offering a series of 8 business classes, Planning to Succeed, starting July 23rd at the NorthWay Community Trust, 1501 West Broadway Ave., Minneapolis, MN 55411.
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