Working While Black: The Untold Stories of Student Affairs Practitioners will examine the narratives of student affairs professionals and how they navigate their professional experiences. While student affairs can be a high pressure and high stress environment for all professionals, Black professionals are often overworked, underheard, and made to feel […]
2015 Outstanding Book Award, Association for Educational Communications & Technology (AECT) A book that explores the problematic connection between education policy and practice while pointing in the direction of a more fruitful relationship, Inside the Black Box of Classroom Practice is a provocative culminating statement from one of America’s most […]
How do we change? In this pioneering talk, Dr. Shauna Shapiro draws on modern neuroscience and ancient wisdom to demonstrate how mindfulness can help us make positive changes in our brains and our lives. Edited by Kevin Raman and Preston Yeung. SHAUNA SHAPIRO, PhD, is a professor at Santa Clara University, a clinical psychologist, and […]
Publisher : Information Age Publishing (March 1, 2022) Language : English Paperback : 196 pages ISBN-10 : 1648027334 ISBN-13 : 978-1648027338 Item Weight : 9.9 ounces Dimensions : 6.14 x 0.45 x 9.21 inches Related Posts […]
This talk by Emily Saul, Sport Psychology & Performance Coach, explores the lessons that she learned from 10 years of practicing pushups, every day. She introduces the value of having a practice: an ongoing and consistent relationship with a repeated action, like she has through pushups. This practice, in the form of habit, routine, and/or […]
A Metro Detroit doctors own the first mother-daughter orthodontics practice in the state according to AfroTech. Doctors Jana and Janelle McQueen own and operate McQueen Orthodontics Specialists. Dr. Jana opened her first practice in 1998 when her daughter Janelle was just a baby. After watching her mother career path growing up Janelle decided to follow her […]
(BPRW) CHILDREN TO LEADERS INC. HOST FUNDRAISER DETROIT CELEBRITY AND YOUTH BASKETBALL GAME AT THE PISTONS’ PRACTICE FACILITY Sponsored by Prestigious Dolls and Thirty6Vision Studio (Black PR Wire) DETROIT, MI – Non-profit organization Children To Leaders Inc. is fundraising during The 6th Annual Skills and Drills Celebrity and Youth Basketball Game inside the Detroit Pistons Practice Facility Sunday, March […]
On January 26, 2022 the Northeastern Illinois University Libraries hosted a virtual book talk with Francesca Morgan, Associate Professor of History at NEIU and author of the 2021 book, A Nation of Descendants: Politics and the Practice of Genealogy in U.S. History. From family trees written in early American bibles to birther conspiracy theories, genealogy […]
Eliza Ann Grier born enslaved in North Carolina earned her M.D., and in 1898 she became the first Black woman to practice medicine in Georgia. It took her 8-years to finish her bachelor’s degree in education from Fisk University in 1891 because she took every other year off to pick cotton and perform other work […]
Did you know that the first African American woman to practice law before the United States Supreme Court was a member of Zeta Phi Beta? It is true! Violette Neatley Anderson was one of the biggest advocates for landmark pieces of legislation that helped sharecroppers in the South secure rights and economic mobility. Anderson was […]