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bitchouttahell:

dreamsflyfree:

Really important, Ladies and Gentlemen of Tumblr. This is the Circle of 6 app. It is available in both the iPhone and Android market, for free. It was created in response to a challenge presented by President Obama in 2011 to create an app that would help prevent abuse and sexual assault. I highly recommend downloading it. Once downloaded you add in six friends or family members nearby who could help you if you ever find yourself in a dangerous or uncomfortable situation. Once those are in it has the option to ask for a ride (with a link to a map with your GPS location), a phone call to interrupt the situation, or a message asking about a healthy relationship, which can signal friends and family to keep an eye out for unhealthy situations and potentially help you out of the relationship.

Furthermore there is an option to call abuse and rape hotlines.

I highly recommend that everyone download this app. And spread awareness so if a friend or family member ever gets a text with one of the pre-loaded messages not to treat it as a joke or some sick prank. It’s an app I only just heard about, despite having been out since March. Everyone should know about Circle of 6.

followers! this app is awesome and i highly recommend it.

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abolitionista:

likehercoffee:

so-treu:

blackinasia:

obiemicroaggressions:

“No student of color should have to walk up to their bike and see this. I came to Oberlin for an education and I am getting this. There are a group of people on campus trying to put fear in our hearts. They are failing. Little do they know, they are sparking a revolution. They were bothered by a Black presence before? Well, they must not know. The movement has just started, Oberlin. ”

-Kara Mahon (Oberlin College student, class of 2015)

What’s going on at Oberlin College right now is crazy. Someone was spotted wearing a full KKK-style hood and robe just earlier today, walking around the school casually (apparently in a part of the campus heavily trafficked by POC, according to a friend of mine who went there), which prompted the administration to cancel classes. This is 2013, people, and both racism and white supremacy are alive and well.

jesus.

damn

My goodness

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vaspim:

Homeless mother who sent six-year-old son to better school in the wrong town jailed for five years

A mother who pleaded guilty to fraudulently enrolling her six-year-old son in the wrong school district has been sentenced to five years in prison.

Tonya McDowell sent her son to an elementary school in Norwalk, Connecticut, instead of her home city of Bridgeport.

The 34-year-old, who was homeless when she was charged with felony larceny last year, said she wanted the best education possible for the boy.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2108733/Homeless-mother-Tanya-McDowell-sent-son-6-better-school-wrong-town-jailed-years.html#ixzz2MmOPkvDf

are you fucking kidding me

(Source: mendmyheart, via loveyourchaos)

ybgk:

England’s Smartest Family is Black:
We won’t hear about this in the news…..
England’s Smartest Family is Black
Meet the “First Family of Education” in England . They are black.

Peter and Paula Imafidon, 9-year-old twins from Waltham Forest in northeast London , are a part of the highest-achieving clan in the history of Great Britain education. The two youngest siblings are about to make British history as the youngest students to ever enter high school. They astounded veteran experts of academia when they became the youngest to ever pass the University of Cambridge ’s advanced mathematics exam. That’s on top of the fact they have set world records when they passed the A/AS-level math papers.

Chris Imafidon, their father, said he’s not concerned about his youngest children’s ability to adapt to secondary school despite their tender age. “We’re delighted with the progress they have made,” he said. “Because they are twins they are always able to help and support each other.”
To Peter and Paula’s parents, this is nothing new. Chris Imafidon said he and his wife have been through this before: they have other super-gifted, overachieving children.
Peter and Paula’s sister, Anne-Marie, now 20, holds the world record as the youngest girl to pass the A-level computing, when she was just 13. 

She is now studying at arguably the most renowned medical school in the United States , Johns Hopkins University , in Baltimore .
Another sister, Christina, 17, is the youngest student to ever get accepted and study at an undergraduate institution at any British university at the tender age of 11.
And Samantha, now age 12, had passed two rigorous high school-level mathematics and statistics exams at the age of 6, something that her twin siblings, Peter and Paula, also did.

Chris Imafidon migrated to London from Nigeria in West Africa over 30 years ago. And despite his children’s jaw-dropping, history-making academic achievements, he denies there is some “genius gene” in his family. Instead, he credits his children’s success to the Excellence in Education program for disadvantaged inner-city children.
“Every child is a genius,” he told British reporters. 

“Once you identify the talent of a child and put them in the environment that will nurture that talent, then the sky is the limit. Look at Tiger Woods or the Williams sisters [Venus and Serena] — they were nurtured. You can never rule anything out with them. The competition between the two of them makes them excel in anything they do.”

 

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