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Redefining The Narrative: Improving Educational Outcomes For Black Males in Jackson

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Redefining The Narrative Improving Educational Outcomes for Black Males in Jackson Hakim Nathaniel Crampton, Director - A.M.E.N. 4 Youth, LLC This article was originally written November 24th, 2016. Copyright hakim nathaniel crampton On November 17th and 18th Jackson College held the third series of a long term initiative in Jackson to research the causes of black male underachievement and collaborate with community and national stakeholders to identify real and employable solutions to improve the academic and ultimate life outcomes for males of color. Lee Hampton, director of Jackson College Multicultural Affairs began this initiative in 2008 by hosting the first African American Male Summit. Together with many other invested community leaders, educators, and concerned citizens, the first Summit’s collaborative brainstorming produced a guided outline that identified many of the systemic causes with potential solutions to the crisis. Some of the causes identified were curriculum bias, ...
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THE URGENCY OF SYSTEMS CHANGE: Deconstructing Racially Biased Systems and Other Public Institutions in Jackson Michigan

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                                  Hakim Nathaniel Crampton   Director, A.M.E.N. 4 Youth, LLC lyricaleducation.wordpress.com hakimcramptonspeaks.blogspot.com   There is an urgent need for identifying systems and institutions in Jackson that must be examined and deconstructed of its institutional policies and particularly practices that are racially biased and/or demonstratively showing clear indications of either a lack of justice, equity or community focused interest and concern.   This means not only defining root causes as a prelude to “systems change” but too we must adequately explain why its critically important to actively engage in deconstructing inequitable systems and begin replacing persons in positions of leadership and power whose role and/or leadership actively or essentially opposes or is not cooperative in the process of systems change within their institution. Our ci...
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