How to Make Black America Better
Leading African Americans Speak Out
Anchor (Publisher)
Published on 2. April 2009
272 pages
978-0-307-48608-0 (ISBN)
Description
Issuing a powerful call for constructive social action, the popular radio and television commentator Tavis Smiley has assembled the voices of leading African American artists, intellectuals, and politicians from Chuck D to Cornel West to Maxine Waters. How to Make Black America Better takes a pragmatic, solutions-oriented approach that includes Smiley's own ten challenges to the African American community.
Smiley and his contributors stress the family tie, the power of community networks, the promise of education, and the leverage of black economic and political strength in shaping a new vision of America. Encouraging African Americans to realize the potential of their own leadership and to work collectively from the bottom up, the selections offer new ideas for addressing vital issues facing black communities. Featuring original essays by some of our most important thinkers, How to Make Black America Better is an essential book for anyone concerned with the status of African Americans today.
Smiley and his contributors stress the family tie, the power of community networks, the promise of education, and the leverage of black economic and political strength in shaping a new vision of America. Encouraging African Americans to realize the potential of their own leadership and to work collectively from the bottom up, the selections offer new ideas for addressing vital issues facing black communities. Featuring original essays by some of our most important thinkers, How to Make Black America Better is an essential book for anyone concerned with the status of African Americans today.
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Tavis Smiley is the author of Doing What's Right, Hard Left, and On Air. He is a regular political commentator on ?The Tom Joyner Morning Show? and won a 1999 NAACP Image Award for his own television talk show BET Tonight with Tavis Smiley. He lives in Los Angeles.
Content
- Intro
- How to Make: Black America Better
- Also by Tavis Smiley
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part I: Ten Challenges to Black America
- Challenge #1: Think Black First, 100 Percent of the Time
- Challenge #2: Look Past What Whites Are Doing to Us to See What We Are Doing to Ourselves
- Challenge #3: Every Black American Should Put Family First
- Challenge #4: Black Americans Must Consider the Consequences of Their Actions
- Challenge #5: Every Black American Should See Him- or Herself as Part of a Larger Black Community
- Challenge #6: Every Black American Must Preserve His or Her Health- Physically, Emotionally, Psychologically, and Spiritually
- Challenge #7: Every Black American Should Develop an Economic Plan
- Challenge #8: Make Education the Number-One Priority for Every Black American
- Challenge #9: Encourage the Black Church to Do More
- Challenge #10: Every Black American Should Establish a Black American Legacy
- Part II: What Leading African Americans Have to Say About How to Make Black America Better
- Each Others Keeper
- History, Heritage, and Hope
- How We, as African Americans, Can Improve Our Community and Our Country in the Twenty-first Century
- Making Black America Better
- Controlling Our Destinies
- Hard Truths
- The Freedom Symphony's Fourth Movement
- Rising Just a Bit Higher
- Cherished
- Updating Our Battles
- Getting Along
- Full Political Participation
- Rebuilding Black America
- Leveraging Our Power
- Behaving Better
- A Community of Accomplishment
- The Digital Age
- What We Can Do
- Try, Try, Try. to Teach All Children Well
- Change the Children
- Making Black America Better Through Self-Knowledge
- The Challenge of Race and Education
- Historically Black Colleges and Universities
- Just for Today.
- Our Golden Age
- The New Millennium
- Jesus
- Know-Who You Were
- Who You Are
- Who You Choose to Be
- Excerpts from Advocacy in the Next Millennium: A Symposium
- Panelists
- ADVOCACY IN THE NEXT MILLENNIUM: A Symposium
- ADVOCACY IN THE NEXT MILLENNIUM: A Symposium
- Copyright
