Thanksgiving Day

I met an unexpected guest this thanksgiving who was Brooks, Derrick. His house was off the chain, I will give you a little description about him and his life. Personal Information
Born Derrick Dewan Brooks on April 18, 1973, in Pensacola, FL; son of Gerri Brooks; married Carol; children: Brianna, Derrick Jr., DewanEducation: Florida State University, BA, 1994, MA, 2001.
Career
Tampa Bay Buccaneers, linebacker, 1995-.
Life's Work
Derrick Brooks is best well-known as the powerful and fast linebacker that helped the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to win their first Super Bowl in 2002. He has won awards for his play on the field including defensive MVP awards and numerous Pro-Bowl appearances. Yet Brooks is also known off the field for his work in the Tampa Bay community. With his Brooks Bunch, a group of inner-city children who he works with through the Ybor City Boys and Girls club, Brooks is teaching children the value of education as well as showing them the opportunities and wonders that the world has to offer. Brooks and the Brooks Bunch have traveled everywhere from the Grand Canyon to South Africa, and Brooks' focus is always on teaching the children about history and the different cultures that they encounter. Many people wonder how Brooks can show so much energy and commitment on the football field and still give his all to helping people off the field. But as Brooks told the ESPN website, "That's who I am. I come here to do a job and be a winner. When I'm away from here, I think the Lord has put me in a position to help others."

The March on Washington, August 1963

In 1962, dissatisfaction had become prevalent in black communities throughout the U.S. The African American unemployment rate was double the rate of whites and major civil rights reforms had not yet been achieved. Asa Philip Randolph, labor leader and founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, proposed the idea of a march "for jobs and freedom."
This, however, was not the first time that Randolph had this idea. Many years earlier in 1941, Randolph had used the idea for a march on Washington to bring about change for blacks. He had given President Franklin Roosevelt an ultimatum: If Roosevelt failed to adequately address the issue of federal employment discrimination in the defense industry, a demonstration involving 100,000 blacks would ensue. Roosevelt was quick to respond with the creation of the Fair Employment Practice Committee. The march was halted.

Four Little Girls

K
1. The girls killed were 11 year old Denise Mcnair and three 14 year olds:Cythia Wesley, Carole Robertson, and Addie Mae Collins.
2. Bomb was by thr Ku Klux Klan
3. They were in the basement dressing room
4. The bombing took place at sixteenth street fist baptist church
W
1. who was responsible for the bomb
2. how many other people were hurt
L
1. Robert Chambliss
2. 28 other people where hurt

School Desegregation in Boston, 1974

This study of the reaction to forced busing in Boston (Massachusetts) that emerged in 1974 illustrates the persistence of race and class discrimination and the counterproductiveness of some imposed solutions. It is focused on white antibusing groups and the complexities of opposition to busing. Racism is essential to understanding the Boston response, but it is not the sole explanation of the resistance to court-ordered desegregation. Nor was the antibusing response a simple manifestation of class conflict, although that undoubtedly played a role. The situation in Boston is examined from its beginnings in the late 1960s and early 1970s through its winding down in the 1980s. The experiences of Boston, and those of school desegregation plans in general, show that partial remedies and remedies that are aimed only at less-affluent Whites are doomed to failure. What has worked best are plans with clear legal requirements consistently enforced by the courts, plans that do not leave out sectors of the population or allow escape over political boundaries. Five tables in the text and three in an appendix of citizen-survey results present findings about public opinion.

Riots in Florida, 1980

There are a great many phrases you can use to describe greater Miami, but “racially harmonious” would not be one of them. From the days of employment identification cards required for people of color to get into Miami Beach, to near-riots over a civic language ordinance, there has always been racial tension in Dade County. And while racial and cultural issues still remain a major concern in 21st century South Florida, never were our problems more evident than in the late spring of 1980. The Miami race riots (also known as the Arthur McDuffie Riots) of May 1980 were the first major race riots after the end of the civil rights movement. The Miami Black community, long abused and neglected by civic leaders who, among other things, placed I-95 straight through the cultural center of their neighborhoods, was getting angrier by the day. Recently arrived Latin and Haitian immigrants were taking jobs and social benefits that had traditionally belonged to Blacks. Cuban refugees wielding money and power were beginning to take control of the city, and as such were awarding minority contracts and jobs to Cubans instead of African-Americans. This, combined with the continuous poverty and degradation of their neighborhoods, had Miami’s Black community ready to snap.

Blacks Define Themselves, 1964-1972

It’s a privilege and an honor to be in the white intellectual ghetto of the West. This is a student conference, as it should be, held on a campus, and we’ll never be caught up in intellectual masturbation on the question of Black Power. That’s the function of the people who are advertisers but call themselves reporters. Incidentally, for my friends and members of the press, my self-appointed white critics, I was reading Mr. Bernard Shaw two days ago, and I came across a very important quote that I think is most apropos to you. He says, "All criticism is an autobiography." Dig yourself. Ok.This was period of powerful and creative social activism for African-Americans, and Howard University was one of its centers. The university had been the site of the NAACP's preparations and moot court arguments for the pivotal Brown v. Topeka Board case before the Supreme Court in 1954, and there was a strong human rights tradition among the faculty and student body.

Maynard Jackson: First African American Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia

The election of Maynard Jackson, who has died of a heart attack aged 65, as the first black mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, in 1973 was a major landmark in the southern US city's history.

It signposted a change of guard in the local political class from white to black; no white person has since been elected mayor. Jackson, who served three terms in office, was a prominent exponent of affirmative action. In his first two terms, he rattled Atlanta's old cosy business relationships, alienating some, but wooing them back in his third term with deft deal-making skills. In 1978, he signed a law requiring 25% of the city's projects to be set aside for minority firms. The policy, which still operates today, made Atlanta the most hospitable place in America for black entrepreneurs. He also pushed through an affirmative action programme that made it mandatory for contractors to take on minority-owned businesses as partners, and forced the city's major law firms to hire African-American lawyers. He threatened that "tumbleweeds would run across the runways of Atlanta airport" if blacks were not included in city contracts.

Dust Traks 4

Chapter 4

Hurston returned to Florida in 1948 and faded into obscurity and poverty. In 1959 she had a stroke, from which she never recovered, and in October of the same year was sentto Lincoln Park Nursing Home, which was run by the St. Lucie County Welfare Agency, where she stayed for some months. She died on January 28, 1960. She was pronounceddead on arrival at Fort Pierce Memorial Hospital, after being taken there following another stroke. Having no money to cover burial expenses, donations were given to coverexpenses. She was buried at Genesee Memorial Gardens Cemetery (Garden of Heavenly Rest), a segregated cemetery in Fort Pierce, Florida, in an unmarked grave, with manyin attendance. In 1973 the grave was visited by Alice Walker, a well know African- American writer. She found the grave had not been tended and over grown with noheadstone. She purchased a headstone and had it inscribed.

Dust Tracks 3

Chapter 3

Hurston was the first black scholar to research folklore on the level that she did. She researched songs, dances, tales, and sayings. Much of her bookmaterial revolves around issues of slavery and the time period immediately following it. She took her black rural culture and heritage and celebrated it at atime when most black scholars were trying hard to deny and forget it. Hurston also studied voodoo practices in Jamaica, Haiti, and the British West Indies.She took photographs and recorded their songs, dances, and rituals. She had a Guggenheim Fellowship to research in the Caribbean, where she stayed fortwo years.

Dust Tracks 2

Chapter 2

Zora had two siblings: Sarah who was older, and John who was younger. Her father, John Hurston, preferred Sarah over Zora. He resented that Zora wasborn a girl. Her mother, Lucy Hurston, died when Zora was nine years old. Lucy strongly encouraged her to be independent and creative. She encouraged allof her children to "jump at de sun". After the death of her mother Zora was shuffled around by relatives and rejected by her father when he re-married. For aplace to go, Zora resorted to being a hired domestic in several homes.

My Favorite Time of The Year

Summer is by far the best timme of the because you can do so many things such as:

Play tag--in the rain. Why stay indoors just because the sun's not shining? Nothing screams summer like a game of soggy tag. Running around in the rain (um, as long as there's no thunder and lightning!!!) is a great way to cool down.

Have a water fight. Get all your pals together, and designate teams. Then grab your water guns, water balloons, buckets, hoses and whatever else you've got...and ATTACK

Make snow slushies--& yummy! Throw some ice cubes in the blender until it is crushed to a very fine consistency. Pack the ice into a cup, and then add your favorite juice, soda or Kool-Aid--and voila! You've got a delicious summer treat to cool you off on ahot day.

Play sponge football with your buds. Be sure to soak the sponge really, really well before tossing it around! Loads of laughs are guaranteed.

You remember watching Home Alone 1, 2 , and 3 . . . and tried to pull the pranks on "intruders"

90's Babies!!!

My Three Scary Stories

Dead Man Calling

An elderly man receives a phone call on a dark, stormy night of November 27, 1993. He answers the phone and hears a crazy moaning on the other end and a voice that sounds like his recently dead son. The calls torment him all night to the point where he can’t go to sleep. The next day, he asks his personal driver to take him past the cemetery where his son was laid to rest. They discover that during the bad storm last night, a phone line just so happen to have fallen down right on is son grave!...........Therefore the phone calls he had received the night of the bad storm was made from, and somehow the reminds of his son dead crops was found out of the ground? A few weeks ago something similar happen close by the community where at lady receives a phone call from her dead husband, and the next day she went to him grave and got shocked by lighting. After a few nights went by the elderly man receives another phones call in the dark, but this time we he answered it he got electrocuted threw the phone!!!

The Stranger

On one cold isolated road, around midnight, in upstate Maine, a man and his girlfriend are driving to see family for Christmas. Suddenly a car approaches them from behind. "Pull over!" a dark figure yells. The man was so scared he just turns in a dirt road. Later he gets out and talks to the man. "What is it, babe?" the girlfriend asks, but she gets no answer. She shrugged and continued to browse through the different radio stations until she found what she wanted. Then she heard a violent crash "Babe?" she said hesitantly. She ran out of the car and saw her boyfriend's head bouncing back and forth on the radio antennae. The back lights were smashed in for so strange reason. Screaming loudly, she runs goes to get her cell phone out of the car; as soon as she opens the car door she hears a weird crepe voice saying, "No use. . . No one will believe you or answer you.

Haunted Computer

One day I was downstairs in the basement of my new house in Death Valley, California, I was on the computer watching movie when suddenly, I heard some footsteps and the door opening, I looked and didn’t see anybody there. I went upstairs to check who it might have been cause my sister and little cousins was in the house, but when I got upstairs, there was no one at all. I went back downstairs to continue my movie, when I was finish I started to shut my computer. Suddenly, the computer opened back up! I thought to myself that was weird... I closed the computer one more time, but this time, I received a message on the computer saying "I'm looking at you, what are you going to do next" I was so freaked out. I didn't shut down the computer or nothing, I just ran upstairs. When I ran upstairs, I thought it might have been someone playing a joke in the house because my family loves to play jokes, but I was very, very wrong. I then ran to my sister room and she was watching a movie with my cousin’s, and I told them what happened. They obviously didn't believe me and laughed.

Lynchings are a form of terrorism. And the particular purpose was to say to African-Americans that you will never vote or be a part of the political process in this country. And if you think you will move in that direction there will be terrible consequence. The most recent incident: a 1981 lynching in Mobile, Alabama in which a 19-year-old black man was killed by two members of the Ku Klux Klan. Here's the thing that really amazes me, looking at the details on this program tonight: Barack Obama, the first black presidential candidate nominated by a major American political party, is almost exactly the same age as that young man killed in that "last lynching." They were born some months apart. The point being: our nation's bad old days weren't all that long ago. Blacks tried so hard to descry that this is not right. Whites tried to make black feign that everything was gone be alright.

Dust Tracks

Chapter 1
Hurston’s family moved to Eatonville in 1893. Her father, John Hurston,
was the eldest of nine children in an impoverished sharecropper family near
Notasulga; during his lifetime, he would achieve substantial influence in and
around Eatonville as a minister, carpenter, successful family man, and local
politician.His parents, Alfred and AmyHurston, were, like wife Lucy’s parents,
Sarah and Richard Potts, formerly enslaved persons. According to Hurston
and her biographers, the landowning Potts family looked down on the handto-
mouth sharecropping Hurstons who lived across the creek.1 By the time
John spotted 14-year-old Lucy singing in her church choir, the class distinction
between the landowning Potts family and the sharecropping Hurston family
was well known; indeed, Potts family resistance to the marriage offers an interesting
study in African American class dynamics of the time. Neither of Lucy’s
parents wanted her to marry JohnHurston, who was – in addition to being dirt
poor – rumored to be the bastard son of a white man; Hurston’s biographer,
Valerie Boyd, has suggested that John possibly owed his light skin to the fact that
father Alfred was mulatto.
Hurston’s family moved to Eatonville in 1893. Her father, John Hurston,
was the eldest of nine children in an impoverished sharecropper family near
Notasulga; during his lifetime, he would achieve substantial influence in and
around Eatonville as a minister, carpenter, successful family man, and local
politician.His parents, Alfred and AmyHurston, were, like wife Lucy’s parents,
Sarah and Richard Potts, formerly enslaved persons. According to Hurston
and her biographers, the landowning Potts family looked down on the handto-
mouth sharecropping Hurstons who lived across the creek.1 By the time
John spotted 14-year-old Lucy singing in her church choir, the class distinction
between the landowning Potts family and the sharecropping Hurston family
was well known; indeed, Potts family resistance to the marriage offers an interesting
study in African American class dynamics of the time. Neither of Lucy’s
parents wanted her to marry JohnHurston, who was – in addition to being dirt
poor – rumored to be the bastard son of a white man; Hurston’s biographer,
Valerie Boyd, has suggested that John possibly owed his light skin to the fact that
father Alfred was mulatto.

Chapter 2
Zora had two siblings: Sarah who was older, and John who was younger. Her father, John Hurston, preferred Sarah over Zora. He resented that Zora was
born a girl. Her mother, Lucy Hurston, died when Zora was nine years old. Lucy strongly encouraged her to be independent and creative. She encouraged all
of her children to "jump at de sun". After the death of her mother Zora was shuffled around by relatives and rejected by her father when he re-married. For a
place to go, Zora resorted to being a hired domestic in several homes.

Chapter 3
Hurston was the first black scholar to research folklore on the level that she did. She researched songs, dances, tales, and sayings. Much of her book
material revolves around issues of slavery and the time period immediately following it. She took her black rural culture and heritage and celebrated it at a
time when most black scholars were trying hard to deny and forget it. Hurston also studied voodoo practices in Jamaica, Haiti, and the British West Indies.
She took photographs and recorded their songs, dances, and rituals. She had a Guggenheim Fellowship to research in the Caribbean, where she stayed for
two years.

Chapter 4
Hurston returned to Florida in 1948 and faded into obscurity and poverty. In 1959 she had a stroke, from which she never recovered, and in October of the same year was sent
to Lincoln Park Nursing Home, which was run by the St. Lucie County Welfare Agency, where she stayed for some months. She died on January 28, 1960. She was pronounced
dead on arrival at Fort Pierce Memorial Hospital, after being taken there following another stroke. Having no money to cover burial expenses, donations were given to cover
expenses. She was buried at Genesee Memorial Gardens Cemetery (Garden of Heavenly Rest), a segregated cemetery in Fort Pierce, Florida, in an unmarked grave, with many
in attendance. In 1973 the grave was visited by Alice Walker, a well know African- American writer. She found the grave had not been tended and over grown with no
headstone. She purchased a headstone and had it inscribed.

Which emotion are you today?

Today I am very sleepy and dont have to much of ny thing. So when I feel like this I dont need nobody imperious me to do any thing. I really dont like being like this because I dont be in a loquacious mood which means everything my not go my way with people.

Bring the Noise

My favorite artist is Lil Wayne and Young Jeezy. They both are the perfect advocate of what they do. They took rapping to another level, they have lots of tenacity and ambition that’s why they are consider the best at what they do, also Lil Wayne has very crazy vocabulary like Malcolm X did. They both have burgeoned over the years and are buttress toward each other. Other rappers make them emulate to be the very best and nothing less. Being said that they are emulate, that means that they applied this into their lives at an early age.

Emmett Till's Murder

Emmett Till is Kidnapped and Murdered On August 24, the boys drove Wright's car into the small town of Money and stopped at Bryant's Grocery store to buy some candy. Prior to entering the store, Till pulled out some pictures of his white friends in Chicago and showed them to some local boys outside of the store. The boys dared Till to talk to Carolyn Bryant, the store clerk. Till went into the store, purchased some candy, and what happened as he was leaving is unclear. Till either said, "Bye, baby" or he whistled at Carolyn Bryant.
Neither Till nor Jones understood the magnitude of Till's act, so they did not tell Mose Wright what had happened. They continued to think nothing of the event as three days passed without incident. However, on the fourth day early Sunday morning, Roy Bryant, Carolyn's husband, and J.W. Milam, Roy's half-brother, knocked on the door of Wright's home. With a pistol and flashlight in hand, they asked Mose Wright whether three boys from Chicago were staying with him. Wright led them to the room where Till was sleeping, and the men told Till to get dressed. Wright unsuccessfully pleaded with them to just whip Till. As they were leaving, they threatened to kill Wright if he told anyone.
Several hours later, Mamie Till was notified of her son's kidnapping. A search of the area was conducted, and Mamie Till notified Chicago newspapers of her son's disappearance. Wright told Money's sheriff who had taken Till, and he arrested Bryant and Milam for kidnapping. So sad what happen to him.

Teen Pregnancy in America (Statistics & Trends)

SEXUAL ACTIVITY
•Nearly half (46%) of all 15-19-year-olds in the United States have had sex at least once.[1]
•By age 15, only 13% of teens have ever had sex. However, by the time they reach age 19, seven in 10 teens have engaged in sexual intercourse.[2]
•Most young people have sex for the first time at about age 17, but do not marry until their middle or late 20s. This means that young adults are at risk of unwanted pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) for nearly a decade.[3]
•Teens are waiting longer to have sex than they did in the past. Some 13% of females and 15% of males aged 15-19 in 2008 had had sex before age 15, compared with 19% and 21%, respectively, in 1995.[4]
•The majority (59%) of sexually experienced teen females had a first sexual partner who was 1-3 years their senior. Only 8% had first partners who were six or more years older.[5]
•More than three-quarters of teen females report that their first sexual experience was with a steady boyfriend, a fiancé, a husband or a cohabiting partner.[6]

•Ten percent of young women aged 18-24 who had sex before age 20 reported that their first sex was involuntary. The younger they were at first intercourse, the higher the proportion.[7]
•Twelve percent of teen males and 10% of teen females have had heterosexual oral sex but not vaginal intercourse.[8]
•The proportion of teens who had ever had sex declined from 49% to 46% among females and from 55% to 46% among males between 1995 and 2007.[9]

These Statistics are staggering.

Biography of Terence

Hey everybody, my name is Terence Cheatom and I would like to introduce myself by saying I love haters but hopeful nobody whom reading this is not one so let me begin. I am from (Polk County Florida!!!) and I am one out of four children’s, also the youngest out of them which means most of the time I get what I want. I am very ambitious about everything I do, you have to go get what you want in this world because there isn’t anything free by far, learn how to be independent. I am majoring in Computer System Information. I love doing things on the computer. In my spare time I love to go clubbing and partying, just know how to have a good time. I love to watch movies and go out to eat. I am impregnable when it comes to grades and football. I’m buttress about people who are trying to do the right thing. Therefore I don’t like craven people, it’s ok to make a mistake, you have to learn from them, and others. I’m a pretty friendly person so lady when you see me around don’t be afraid to speak. If you have any questions send me an e-mail, or feel free to ask in person. Have a GREAT DAY!!!

My first blog

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