Archive for July 27th, 2005
Pentecostal Clergy on the Absence of Black Fathers
Wednesday, July 27th, 2005Kudos to Rev. Eugene Rivers for making noise about a critical issue within low-income (not just black) neighborhoods. “Father absence is the bane of the black community, predisposing its children (boys especially, but increasingly girls as well) to school failure, criminal behavior and economic hardship — and to an intergenerational repetition of the grim cycle. [...]
I could probably pass, but not without prep
Wednesday, July 27th, 2005This is the eighth-grade final exam from 1895 in Salina, KS, USA. Scary stuff for most college grads today, never mind 8th graders. I didn’t even know what “orthography” is without online help. Is that cheating?