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College admissions want to know what national championships your child has  won! Your child needs to know how they stack up, not just on a paper and pencil test, but in face-2-face state-wide and national competition in areas they love and in which they are strong. Our students are active ACTSO participants and very often state and national champions.  We're small, mobile and powerful! Ife Madzimoyo national champion as an AYA Junior! Each student is assigned an ACT-SO coach by the end of September, so they'll be ready to compete in the Winter and Spring. What is ACT-SO? The NAACP's Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics is a year-long achievement program designed to recruit, stimulate, and encourage high academic and cultural achievement among African-American high school students. ACT-SO includes 26 categories of competition in the sciences, humanities, business, and performing and visual arts. More than 260,000 young pe...

Why are these adults learning? Why is Septima Clarke teaching? Aren't they "over the hill?" Aren't they too busy, too tired, or just too old? Don't they know everything they need to know by now? The answer is simple. They weren't satisfied with the restrictions White people and White racism placed on them and their children. The wanted what they called "Freedom." They weren't learning to read so they could get awards at the annual Governor's banquet. They were learning to read, so they could read the Mississippi Constitution, so they could register to vote, so they could get the Governor and White people's foot off of our backs. Is "Freedom" enough for you? If so, then you'll join this elite crew who did what they had to do for us to see a brighter day. If so, enroll in AYA's Weekend Academy for our Trayvon Martin Curriculum. It features courses like: Following Ariminta (Harriet Tubman) like you've ...

A FB friend posted: "Truth: When we become unjust, while experiencing injustice, we are showing ourselves to be unworthy of what God would grant to us." Wekesa Responded: True - only if we define unjust and define and name God out of our story and our highest aspirations. Our current moral code - injected by the  oppressor - has us more concerned about becoming them than stopping them from murdering our children and turning us into thugs and pole dancers.  Morality and justice is contextual. If we use the same moral compass when dealing with those that oppress us and those with whom we choose to build, we will remain the hunted, the  servants, the playthings of the oppressors.  We will remain alienated from our deep spiritual selves that can again be a light unto the world.

AYA Weekend School  Learn More @ our open house on Sunday 8PM Eastern: Login and Phone info here:  http://www.ayaed.com/youth.htm Saturday Courses  Starting September, 7th Justice For Trayvon: (Each of the courses in this section is designed to help our students and adults process and recover from the pain of oppression heightened by recent verdict in the Zimmerman murder trial This course along with Where My Voice Begins for Youth and Warriors-Healers-Builders for adults provide an excellent psychological, historical, and communicative context and tool-set to help adults and youth generate a warrior-healer-builder response that facilitates academic achievement and social responsibility.)  Ayati (Haiti) From the Bottom  (Ayinde Madzimoyo, Instructor) We Will Shoot Back (Wekesa O. Madzimoyo, Instructor) Following Araminta (Harriet Tubman) Instructor - Wekesa O. Madzimoyo Creative: The Ancestor's Breath: Introductory Twi Drawing From T...

This headline hit me hard.  I remember back in the day when parents first began feeling scared about our children's basic safety in school.  I thought some of the fear was little bit over the top.  This was before metal detectors, children bringing knives and guns and before outsiders showed up in trench coats and automatic weapons shooting to kill. With all that to fear, now I'm wondering:  what is the average teacher or principal personnel going to do if / when they feel threatened by a student of the school -- the person they ostensibly are arming them to protect. I see all kinds of scenarios: 1,) two students are fighting and one seemingly reaches in his / her pocket. 2.) a student is overly aggressive possibly due to side affects of medication, etc. I bow my head in sadness to take in that our children do not feel themselves basically safe.  In the fifth grade I did not feel very safe either.  I had integrated an all white school and everyday...

By Andrew DeMillo The Associated Press Cheyne Dougan, assistant principal at Clarksville High School in Clarksville, Ark., is one of 20 Clarksville School District staff members who are training to be armed security guards on campus.( Photos by Danny Johnston, The Associated Press ) CLARKSVILLE, Ark. — As Cheyne Dougan rounded the corner at Clarksville High School, he saw three students on the floor moaning and crying. In a split second, two more ran out of a nearby classroom. "He's got a gun," one of them shouted as Dougan approached with his pistol drawn. Inside, he found one student holding another at gunpoint. Dougan aimed and fired three rounds at the gunman. Preparing for such scenarios has become common for police after a school shooting in Connecticut in December left 20 children and six teachers dead. But Dougan is no policeman. He's the assistant principal of this school in Arkansas, and when classes resume in August, he will walk the halls with a...