by Phyllis Banks Cook | Jan 19, 2015 | Blog
If you are an African American School Superintendent in an under resourced urban school —WATCH YOUR NECK!! They are coming for you, it is only a matter of time. I see them on the news and in the papers. Other African American educators lament their issues. There...
by Phyllis Banks Cook | Jan 5, 2015 | Blog
I just love this quote from Forbes magazine: “No person or entity is manufacturing food products intended for human consumption that contain aborted fetuses. But some food companies are using cell lines that originally derived from human fetuses to develop new...
by Phyllis Banks Cook | Dec 28, 2014 | Blog, Culture
As I travel through the plantation I reside on, I am continually struck by how the African American community has been destroyed. The community is left with one economic group of people, POOR PEOPLE. Poor people have the additional burden of receiving poor services...
by Phyllis Banks Cook | Dec 15, 2014 | Blog, Culture, History
As I ride through The Cleveland Plantation I am always amazed by the number of churches. I was also reminded that I have visited a great many of the larger churches. I attended those churches for various meetings or ceremonies. Yesterday, I was invited to attend...
by Phyllis Banks Cook | Dec 12, 2014 | Blog
I was wondering why there were so many rural and suburban schools being targeted for student on student violence. I pondered the issue for awhile as I recalled being in a Middle School as the Assistant Principal. I was involved in lock downs and monitoring the...
by Phyllis Banks Cook | Dec 12, 2014 | Blog, Culture, History
I programmed my television to National Geographic this morning. I was very interested in their topic, The History of Food. Before I started multi- tasking they had most of my attention, then they dropped the bomb. When they started talking about the history of food...
by Phyllis Banks Cook | Dec 9, 2014 | Blog
I refused to believe that President Obama understood the role of the President and willingly took the job. He has done and will continue to do some things that are totally inhumane. Further, the majority of the laws and programs benefit the oligarchs and plutocrats....
by Phyllis Banks Cook | Dec 8, 2014 | Blog
The corporate media has the populace in an uproar every other month about a new scourge on a nation whose only goal it is to save the ignorant world. These messages that cause wide spread hysteria really feeds into an image the US likes to project. The rest of the...
by Phyllis Banks Cook | Dec 8, 2014 | Blog
I have written about the Autistic Spectrum Disorder before. Yesterday, while going to a dancing class, I was a little early and I overheard a conversation between an inspector and a worker. They were discussing a feeding program for the children that attend the...
by Phyllis Banks Cook | Dec 1, 2014 | Blog, History
Presidents have been killed in this violent society throughout American history. As a historical fact, this country has assassinated four of it’s Presidents; Kennedy, McKinley, Garfield and Lincoln. Killing Presidents is not a new phenomenon in America. Let me...
