In the past weeks there have been numerous articles on education that have been lost on the national consciousness as headlines are overwhelmed with the rise of political season, the continued conflict in Iraq + Afghanistan (OIF/OEF), reality television and sensationalized news. To our detriment, the mainstream is unaware that for the first […]
I was watching CNN when I first saw the images coming from Haiti showing the chaos and terror of the aftermath of the earthquake that toppled buildings killing thousands and rending so many more homeless. At the same time I was on my computer checking Gmail when a friend Creighton g-chatted me and said, Decker we have […]
I was watching CNN when I first saw the images coming from Haiti showing the chaos and terror of the aftermath of the earthquake that toppled buildings killing thousands and rending so many more homeless. At the same time I was on my computer checking Gmail when a friend Creighton g-chatted me and said, Decker we have […]
DC area cab drivers went on strike the other day. Once I heard of the strike I found it ironic, because to myself and many other African American males in the District of Obama the cab strike has been going on for some time now. Every evening, weekend, and well any damn time my black […]
As a member of the hip hop generation and the executive director of a non-profit civic organization the line between my work and my life is increasingly merged and the glue by which it is bonded is the grind. Those of us who are fortunate to get to call “do-gooder” part of their job […]
