‘Education’ Archives
City Colleges of Chicago needs a paradigm shift from good to great
By: Charles S. Mombo, MSMIS, MBA Chicago Mayor Richard DaleyIn his book, The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness, Stephen Covey stated, “If you want to make minor, incremental changes and improvement, work on practices, behavior or attitude. But if you want to [Read More]
NBA player Lorenzen Wright Family Filed Missing Person Report
The family of former NBA player Lorenzen Wright has reported him missingThe family of former NBA player Lorenzen Wright has reported him missing after disappearing last Sunday. Wright was reportedly last seen in the Memphis area before he was to board a flight out of town. [Read More]
NBA Shawne Williams charged with driving on a suspended license
Memphis police is reporting that former NBA player Shawne Williams and Kareem Cooper, a former University of Memphis teammate, were arrested Friday. According to police report, Williams was pulled over because he was not wearing a seat belt while driving his Dodge Charger. [Read More]
Chicago Malcolm X College Offers WordPress Workshop
Malcolm X College Image source: Malcolm X CollegeUnder the leadership of Malcolm X College’s President Ghingo Brooks, the institution continues to commit itself to preparing students and the community for job readiness and training small businesses in preparing [Read More]
Texas Board of Education Mis-Education on Slavery
Texas Board of Education Mis-Education of Slavery From every indication it appears that Texas' State Board of Education (SBOE) is about to play partisan politics by rewriting history and textbooks. Texas' SBOE, is an elected 15 member board. The Commissioner [Read More]
Arizona Bans African American and Chicana/o Studies
The Torch of Quetzalcoatl by Leo Tanguma`On Tuesday, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed bill HB2281 that bans all ethnic studies in Arizona's public schools. HB2281 takes effect on Dec. 31, 2010. The bans will prevent the teaching of African American, Native [Read More]
Katie Washington Notre Dame’s First African American Valedictorian
Katie Washington Notre Dame’s First African American Valedictorian After the healthcare legislation was passed, Vice President Joe Biden was heard telling President Obama, "Mr. President, This Is a Big Fucking Deal." We at Chocolate City congratulate and [Read More]
President Obama Repealed Bush’s Title IX Policy
By: Charles S. Mombo Malcolm X College Lady Hawks Photo Source:malcolmx.ccc.eduOn Tuesday, President Obama repealed George Bush's policy that required colleges and universities to rely on an e-mail survey as a scale for measuring women's interest in sports. Title [Read More]
Chicago’s Malcolm X College Established Karnak Wellness Institute
By Charles S. Mombo Malcolm X College President Ghingo BrooksA wind of change is blowing across Malcolm X College in Chicago. Under the dynamic leadership of Malcolm X College President Ghingo Brooks (pronounced Gino), The Karnak Wellness Institute was recently established. [Read More]
Chicago Urban Prep Story Defies Conceptual Entrapment
By Charles S. Mombo Chicago Urban Prep Story Defies Conceptual Entrapment the entire senior class is college bound.In his book, Black Demons: Mass Media's Depiction of the African American Male Criminal Stereotype, Dennis Rome, a sociologist and associate professor in [Read More]
The Real Victims of Kansas City Massive Schools Closing
By: Charles S. Mombo Students from F. L. Schlagle High School at the annual Kansas Public Schools Marching Band FestivalDespite the anger and frustration expressed by parents, students and teachers; Kansas City’s school board has decided to go ahead and close 29 of [Read More]
Indicted Illinois Governor Blagojevich Speaks on Ethics in Politics
Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich.According to The Daily Northwestern newspaper, former Illinois Governor Rod R. Blagojevich will speak at the university at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 2. The event is titled “Ethics in Politics: An evening with Former Governor Rod [Read More]
Crook County Chicago Illinois?
By Charles S. Mombo Seal of Cook County IllinoisOne of Cook County's most not-too-famous son, Al Capone, was onces quoted as saying, "A crook is a crook, and there's something healthy about his frankness in the matter. But any guy who pretends he is [Read More]
African American and Blacks Unemployment Rate Still High
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics www.MinorityITJobs.com - A minority and female information technology jobs siteThe unemployment rate fell from 10.0 to 9.7 percent in January, and nonfarm payroll employment was essentially unchanged (-20,000), the U.S. Bureau of [Read More]
An Interview With T’Keyah Crystal Keymáh
By Charles S. Mombo T'Keyah Crystal Kemyah, Author of Natural Woman / Natural HairRaised on the South Side of Chicago by her grandparents and great grandmother, T'Keyah Crystal Keymáh (pronounced Ta-Kee-ah Kristle Kee-Mah), is her name personified: a prism of [Read More]
The Impact of Tiger Woods Endorsement on Consumers
By Charles S. Mombo Tiger Woods in a Gillette AdMarital infidelity will always lead to a loss-loss situation. Victor Stango and Christopher Knittel, two University of California, Davis, professors recently found from research that losses to businesses and shareholders due [Read More]
Mark Ingram Wins University of Alabama First Heisman
Photo Source: Pool photo by Kelly Kline Congratulations to Mark Ingram and the University of Alabama family for winning the 75th Heisman Memorial Trophy. Ingram was selected on December 12, 2009. The sophomore running back of the Crimson Tide was selected as the Most [Read More]
Heather Ellis and the Bizarre Walmart Incident
By Charles S. Mombo Heather Ellis and Family Photos Credit: Corey NolesCNN News reported last night that Heather Ellis, a 24 year-old African American Xavier University graduate could face fifteen years behind bars for assaulting police officers and resisting arrest after [Read More]
Birthday Sex for Chicago Public School?
Chicago born rapper, Jeremih Felton The Chicago born rapper, Jeremih Felton, popularly know for his erotic song, “Birthday Sex” has agreed to use “Twitter” to encourage about 70,000 of his Chicago Public Schools (CPS) followers to get back to Sept. [Read More]
Naomi Sims, the super supermodel is dead at 61
Naomi Sims on an August 1973 Cosmopolitan MagazineMs. Sims was born on March 30, 1948, in Oxford, Miss., the third of three daughters of John and Elizabeth Sims. Her father was a porter. Her parents divorced shortly after she was born, and all she knew of her father, [Read More]
President Obama invites Gates and Crowley for beer
President Obama invites Gates and Crowley to White House for beerHad I known President Barack Obama personally, I would have call him yesterday and suggested that he invite Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Sgt. James Crowley to the White House to discuss the arrest issue that [Read More]
Obama – I will get shot if I try to break into white house
Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - Included on Time's "25 Most Influential Americans" list President Barack Obama said “if I were to break into the White House, I will get shot.” The president was responding to a question by Sun-Times Washington Bureau [Read More]
Is abortion the issue or hidden racism
Abortion ProtesterSince its founding in 1842 by Holy Cross priest Father Edward F. Sorin, the University of Notre Dame have held several commencements starting from 1845. On June 5, 1960, President Dwight Eisenhower delivered the University’s first presidential [Read More]
Archbishop Hughes, do you think Donna Brazile Cares?
Donna BrazileAccording to the Xavier University of Louisiana website, Donna Brazile, a Democratic political strategist, will be the keynote speaker during the university’s 82nd. annual commencement scheduled to be held on Saturday, May 9, at 10:00 a.m. in the [Read More]
Obama Can Do Without ASU Worthless Honorary Degree
President Barack Obama, America’s first African-American president, is scheduled to deliver the commencement address at Arizona State University (ASU) on May 13. It is customary that an honorary degree be awarded to the commencement speaker as Arizona State University [Read More]
Obama: Washington Needs Some Chicago Winter Toughness
A couple checks out reflections on the underside of the 110-ton stainless steel Anish Kapoor sculpture called “Cloud Gate” and nicknamed “The Bean” at Millennium Park on Thursday in Chicago. Nam Y. Huh / APSpeaking to the fact that most schools in [Read More]
Chicago School bans visiting fans from sport events
The Public League of the Chicago Public School (CPS) announced that it is taking striking and necessary actions by banning fans of visiting teams from attending sports events. This dramatic measure is to curb a rash of violence that has erupted at CPS basketball games. [Read More]
Hard Work U – A FREE Alternative to skyrocketing tuition
by: Charles Mombo C of O - Williams Memorial ChapelWith overwhelming problems and consensus to overhaul our ramshackle economic system from every direction, comes skyrocketing tuition, cuts to aids programs and massive student loan debt. The need for more financial aid [Read More]
Chris Gardner Speaks at Hales’ Speaker Series
Chris Gardner - Photo Credit: Lawrence Nalls, Forty Photography CHICAGO, Illinois – As Hales Franciscan High School enters its 46th year of service in pursuit of excellence to ‘In Virum Perfectum’ (“Unto Perfect Manhood”), it emerges with [Read More]
Bethune-Cookman University Students March to Early Vote
Bethune-Cookman University,On Monday October, 27 Bethune Cookman University, located in Daytona Beach, Florida bussed most of the 1,000 students from Bethune-Cookman University (B-CU) to cast early ballots for the first time in their lives, the remaining students marched [Read More]
Call Me MISTER – Increasing African American teachers
Dr. Kujufu at a Call me MISTER event Call Me MISTER (acronym for Mentors Instructing Students Toward Effective Role Models) National Initiative is to increase the pool of available teachers from a broader more diverse background particularly among the State’s lowest [Read More]
McCain and the Keating Five, guilty by association
By: Charles Mombo For: http://www.chocolatecity.cc/blog The nerve and audicity of Sen. John McCain and his dumb vice presidential candidate to launched an all out swift boat-style attacks against Barack instead of addressing the country’s real problems. The fact is [Read More]
Wellesley College tracks 2010 graduates for success
Professor of sociology Lee CubaSuccess, it is said, leaves footprints in the sand that you can follow. If you can’t follow the footprints you may be on the wrong beach. Wellesley College’s sociologist Lee Cuba seems to subscribe to this principle. A member of [Read More]
An apparent racist culture at the U.S. State Department
Condoleezza RiceAlthough the United States State Department is headed by an African American or Black woman, Condoleezza Rice, it appears that the department perfers hiring only White employees. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Monday that there are too few [Read More]
Randy Pausch: The Last Lecture, a genius and a force of nature
Jai and Randy Pausch, and their children Logan, front left, Dylan and Chloe. Dr. Randy Pausch (Oct. 23, 1960 -- July 25, 2008), a Carnegie Mellon University computer-science and human-computer interaction and design professor best known for his inspiring "Last [Read More]
