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IMBALANCE IN PUNISHMENT BETWEEN THE GIRLS AND THE BOYS AND MEN WHO IMPREGNATED THEM, WHAT NGOS ARE DOING ABOUT THE ABSENCE OF SEX EDUCATION IN TANZANIAN SCHOOLS, THE TANZANIAN GOVERNMENT’S PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGN AIMED AT AND AGAINST GIRLS LISTEN/DOWNLOAD By the end of Malcolm X’s second trip to Africa and the Middle East in 1964, he said at a press conference: “In every country you go to, usually the degree of progress can never be separated from the woman. If you’re in a country that’s progressive, the woman is progressive. If you’re in a country that reflects the consciousness toward the importance of education, it’s because the woman is aware of the importance of education. “But in every backward country you’ll find the women are backward, and in every country where education is not stressed it’s because the women don’t have education. “So one of the things I became thoroughly convinced of in my recent travels is the importance of giving freedom to the women, giv...

Dr. Lorraine Monroe has been a teacher and professor of education for decades, and has made a significant impact on the way that children are educated and teachers are taught to teach in New York City. Dr. Monroe is the founder and Executive Director of School Leadership Academy, an educational consultant, and was the Chief Executive for Instruction at the NYC Board of Education. She founded the Center for Minority Achievement at Bank Street College and is a member of the Board of Trustees at Columbia University Teachers College.  I spoke with Dr. Monroe after she’d just given a talk about the schools that she oversaw, and how their transformative mission requires them to fight the many ways that Euro-American schools poison African-American children. She spoke of the necessity of getting city kids out of the city and into nature, and in particular to a healing camp that provided meditation that they loved, a camp whose quiet restored their serenity and gave th...