The American Minervan

Tag: Black Culture

  • Preparing Black Youth in the 1960s: Education and Class Issues

    Preparing Black Youth in the 1960s: Education and Class Issues

    This documentary from 1968 in Brooklyn highlights the controversial Ocean Hill-Brownsville conflict that focused on community control of schools. It also reveals past problems in the education system decades ago, and the struggles of parenting our Black youth, and inculcating in them the desire and love for learning. In the backdrop, we get young Black…

  • Summer | Tighten Up

    Summer | Tighten Up

    I know the year has been hard, but we persevered, so let us continue to learn to come together, and believe in one another. Tighten Up – Purdie/Rainey/Walker,/Phillips/Bivens/Jones/Morales/Donaldson & Mr. Alligator Boogaloo. Original song from Original Atlantic Records recording by Archie Bell & The Drells (1968).