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Educate Me Foundation Working To Grow The Number Of Black Teachers For Black Students Across The Country

February 18, 2017

By Curtis Bunn, Urban News Service The axiom, “Those who cannot do, teach,” missed the point, as far as Blake Nathan is concerned. In fact, Nathan created the Educate Me Foundation on a wholly opposite premise: To mentor and encourage African-American students, high school and college, to pursue careers in education, especially as teachers—and to […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Black Students, Black Teachers, Blake Nathan, Curtis Bunn, Educate Me

Indianapolis’ Oaks Schools Use Student Diversity to Teach and Learn

October 21, 2016

By Curtis Bunn Urban News Service INDIANAPOLIS — Diversity is a slogan in many places, but at The Oaks Academy’s campuses near downtown Indianapolis, on any given Wednesday, the hallways are lined with more than 100 students and parents — black, white and otherwise, low-income, well-off and in-between — who come together for a morning […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Andrew N. Hart, Curtis Bunn, Diversity, Oaks Academy

What Do Black Women Want? Cigars!

September 16, 2016

By Curtis Bunn Urban News Service When Monica Cooper walked into a smoke-filled room, it changed her life. She was a New York promotional model in 1998, when she worked an obscure event that she hardly remembers — except that men there smoked cigars. That occasion welcomed her into a culture in which few black […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Cigars, Curtis Bunn, Monica Cooper, Stixx & Stilettos, Vanessa Olivier

Left, Right Seek to Halt $4.2 Billion in Asset-Seizure Abuse

July 15, 2016

by Curtis Bunn Urban News Service Darren wants his surname kept secret. After enduring civil-asset forfeiture, he fears reprisals from law enforcement. “And you know why? Because this thing has let me know for a fact there’s no limit to what the police will do,” he said. “And they have the law behind them.” The […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Asset Seizures, Criminal Justice Reform, Curtis Bunn, Racial Profiling

Prison Phone Rates Generate Billions for Companies – and Cause Stress for Black Families

April 15, 2016

by Curtis Bunn Urban News Service Garry Lawrence’s family worried about paying his legal fees. But phoning him in prison nearly bankrupted them. When Garry was arrested almost seven years ago on a minor drug offense, his loved ones knew that paying a lawyer to argue his case would be a major expense. They were […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Curtis Bunn, Garry Lawrence, Prison Phone Rates, Prison Reform

NFTE Turns Inner-City Youths into Black Entrepreneurs, Despite Persistent Challenges

March 18, 2016

by Curtis Bunn Urban News Service “My ethnicity has been empowering and encouraging for my community,” she says. “I am the first African-American balloon artist that most children in the region have seen, especially inner-city African- American children. Oftentimes, people will book me because of my color and age. Sometimes, I am even hired to […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Curtis Bunn, Entrepreneurship, Network For Teaching Entrepreneurship, NFTE

Homeless As Kids, Brothers Lamont and Anthony Peterson Evolve From Street Life To Boxing’s Elite

February 26, 2016

by Curtis Bunn, Urban News Service Abandoned and left on the streets, these two boxing champions are now cheered by the very parents who once cast them aside. it is the story of four individual transformations combining into one incredible tale. As a result, each victory in the boxing ring moves brothers Lamont and Anthony […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Anthony Peterson, Boxing, Curtis Bunn, Lamont Peterson

Drexel’s ‘Healing Hurt People’ Program Helps Young Victims Recover from Emergency Room Trauma

February 26, 2016

by Curtis Bunn, Urban News Service Sobering facts: For every black youth murdered in Philadelphia, 90 others experience grave injuries, including gunshot and stabbing wounds. Each year, more than 900 young blacks are admitted to one specific local emergency room as victims of violence, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. For John […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Curtis Bunn, Emergency Room, Healing Hurt People, John Rich, Ted Corbin, Victims of Violence

Urban Prep Academy Turns Boys into Scholars in Chicago’s Roughest Neighborhoods

February 12, 2016

by Curtis Bunn Urban News Service CHICAGO — In some of Chicago’s lowest income neighborhoods, African-American teenage boys are overcoming their challenging surroundings. They are the young men of Urban Prep Academy, an all-male charter high school with a 100 percent graduation rate. All of those students earn college scholarships. And it all starts each […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Curtis Bunn, Roosevelt Moneyham III, Urban Prep Academy

Rare Journey to Israel Changes NFL Hall of Famer’s Life

February 12, 2016

by Curtis Bunn Urban News Service For Chris Doleman, the NFL Hall of Fame is nothing compared to being baptized in the River Jordan. The former Minnesota Viking and 18 other NFL Hall of Famers toured Israel with Ron Dermer, that nation’s ambassador to Washington, David Baker of the Hall of Fame, and New England […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Chris Doleman, Curtis Bunn

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