Troubling Trend: African American Males Pre-K to Prison

Oscar A. Barbarin, III, Ph.D. is the Hertz Endowed Chair of the Department of Psychology Center for Children, Families, and Schools at Tulane University, New Orleans. He has worked in the fields of family development, early childhood education, and minority youth crime prevention for over thirty years, and is Past-President of the American Orthopsychiatric Association.



Dr. Barbarin is the author of a new study that shows a thirty year trend that shows a disproportionate number of African American male youth ending up in prison.
It's projected that by 2029, prisons will house almost 30,000 of the 600,000 four-year olds now living in America. The solution to this problem lies within families, schools and communities according to Dr. Barbarin.

A$H CA$H: Money Right, Mind Right “The 10 Laws of Financial Freedom”

Ash’Cash is an Author, Business Consultant, Motivational Speaker, Financial Adviser and Financial Literacy Advocate with more than 10 years of banking experience. Through his hard work and eagerness to learn, Ash worked his way through the ranks in banking from teller to customer service then to personal banker, private banker & branch manager. His last position in traditional corporate America before transitioning to entrepreneurship and doing what he loves was as Vice President at one of the largest financial institution in the world, managing a book of 400 mass affluent clients with assets ranging from $100K-$22MM. In his career he has coached and trained over 100 sales professionals, took over and made underperforming branches profitable, and opened and managed four branches; bringing in almost $90MM in deposits over his tenure. Ash attributes his career success to knowledge and knowing what to do with it once it’s obtained.While developing his career, he attended the Borough of Manhattan Community College and Bernard M. Baruch College obtaining a degree in finance and investments.

Today Ash is President and CEO of Ash Cash Enterprises a company that he created that houses many of his ventures including; Ash Cash Entertainment Group, which is the arm that produces and distributes all of his media ventures, Ash Cash Management Group, a Management /Business consultant company and Ash Cash Holding Co. which houses all of his investments and real estate. Ash is currently in the process of pursuing his masters’ degree in psychology, as a way to learn more about how the human mind works so he can be more effective in his mission to get the world focused!!!

Special Guest Zekita Tucker of the ‘The African Diaspora Hour’

Zekita Tucker is a woman of many talents. Zekita (aka Zekita Tucker) is the Founder &CEO of Zeniam Publications. She is also a three time author, a freelance journalist, a student of sociology, a defeater of breast cancer, a cultivator of young African/Black minds, and most importantly, a mother. Prior to her groundbreaking series YourStory, which premiered with the title YourStory Book One, Zekita authored and published Don’t Call Me N-gga, Purple Revised Edition and Reggie Wakes Up (both under Zeniam Publications). As the creator, publisher, and author of the YourStory series, her company has made it a life long goal to provide youth, parents, libraries, organizations, and schools with learning resources that promote the inclusion of Global African history and analysis within the general curriculum of all elementary, middle, and high school.

Her first two books discouraged young African/Blacks from using the so called ‘n’ word and encouraged entrepreneurship and academic excellence- respectively. As a freelance writer, she has been published by countless African/Black newspapers and online publications across the U.S. and abroad. Her work as an independent journalist and author and proclaimed Africana Womanist, has awarded her features by the likes of ABC World News and Black Star News(NY) as well as guest spots on popular radio shows such as CNN’s Roland S. Martin Show and XM Radio’s Urban Journal w/ Keith Murphy. Appearing as a guest speaker and presenter at schools and other public events, Zekita has been called the ‘motivational mama’ by parents, teachers, and youth who have benefited from her presentations and written work.

Erykah Badu: From Bag Lady To Video Skank

So the media world is all abuzz about Erykah Badu’s video “Window Seat” in which she walks down a heavily populated Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas, the site where late President John F. Kennedy was assassinated and sheds her clothing in full view of the tourist which included children.

She claims she had some concern about the children present but that did not deter her from showing her butt to the world. Some are calling it art, some are calling it a publicity stunt, we call it another example of the corrupting influence of corporate media on society and how people put their selfish needs before others. With that said, the video more than likely will be celebrated and receive all kind of awards from the degenerate corporate media establishment.