Tag Archives: MRCi

The Pursuit and Process of Black Men Securing a Doctoral Degree

Please join MRCi for our first-ever focus group tonight November 12 (Thursday) @ 7:30 EST ////  6:30 CST by clicking here. Dr. Kenyatta Phelps will head a focus group seeking answers surrounding what is the process that Black Men undergo while pursuing a Doctoral Degree.

Please join us tonight — November 12 (Thursday) @ 7:30 est ////  6:30 cst — to aid this scholar as she seeks answers to this very important issue by clicking here.

 

How Many Did You Have?: The Case of the Missing Black Male Teacher

Please join our intellectual community for a historically grounded discussion over “The Case of the Missing Black Male Teacher.”

The MRCi (Manhood, Race, and Culture Interactive) discussion begins promptly at 7:30 Eastern Standard Time & 6:30 Central Standard Time. Please click this link to join the discussion.

We will discuss the following issues.

  • Why are there so few Black Male educators? 
  • Why do we need Black Male educators?
  • What can we do to improve the presence of Black Male educators?
  • Does the presence of Black Male teachers possess the power to significantly improve the academic and life performance of young Black Males?
  • Does the use of a standardized curriculum remove influence and power from Black educators?

So, once again, please join our intellectual community that is filled with teachers, collegians, professors, community activists, and scholars by clicking this link for an intriguing discussion regarding a pertinent issue facing Black America. The discussion begins promptly at 7:30 Eastern Standard Time & 6:30 Central Standard Time.

We are looking forward to hearing your perspective.

What does it mean to be a Black Man in America Today? — A MRCi event

Please join us tonight for an insightful panel discussion with a cross-section of Black America discussing “What does it mean to be a Black man in America Today?”

Tonight’s program promises to be a particularly riveting discussion as it is our initial panel discussion. Please feel free to join us.

Please click on any of the links to join us tonight. The discussion will begin at 7:30 (EST) / 6:30 (CST)

Where Did This Thing Called “Race” Come From?: Please join us tonight for the latest MRCi Session

Despite the disclaimers of a multi-racial coalition of deniers, America has been and may always be marred by an unspecified “racism” tag. It is difficult to effectively argue against assertions that this nation was infected by racial bias when Thomas Jefferson announced the colonists’ intention “to not be the slaves of Britain” and that All Men Are Created Equal in the Declaration of Independence or when W.E.B. DuBois prophetically asserted that “the problem of the twentieth-century will be the color-line.” It is important that Americans realize that its foremost social cancer is DuBois’ color-line, “racism.”

Yet, I have always found it difficult to explain the reality that although Americans have been brined in a putrid brew of economic inequality, racial bias, and institutionalized racism that they know very little about the origins of “racism” in the land of the free and the home of the brave. Not only is the average American wholly ignorant of how “racism” functions, but they also have little desire to address their intellectual feebleness regarding this matter.

Please join us tonight (August 6, 2020) at 7:30 EST /6:30 CST for a stimulating intellectual discussion regarding the roots of Race in America. We will discuss the following issues in the interactive Zoom meeting tonight.

  • Were the initial Africans who arrived in the Jamestown colony under European control “slaves” or “half-free.”
  • Who is John Punch and why does he matter in discussions of American racial matters?
  • When did racial identity become so important in colonial life and why?
  • Did the colonial system encourage the rape of Black women?
  • Did enslaved Africans fight against the developing society that rested on their exploitation?

You are being cordially invited to attend and participate in tonight’s Zoom session. I will be the lead presenter for this latest session of MRCi (Manhood, Race, and Culture Interactive).

I hope to see you tonight. Trust me when I say that we have a grand time interacting and learning from each other.

Dr. James Thomas Jones III

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