Afrocentric Learning Tools presents ....
A Web Guide for Black Parents by LaShanda Henry

This e-book includes an extensive listing of over 200 Afrocentric / Multicultural Websites for Black Parents, Students, Children, and Educators. To Purchase this e-Book visit www.lulu.com/content/459061. The Chapters include: Black Parenting Online Guides, Black Homeschooling Information, Teaching Black Students, Teaching Black History, Teaching about Africa, All About Kwanzaa, Afrocentric / Multicultural Online Games, Activities, and Resources, Black Movies for Families and Kids, Black Bookstores, College Preparation of Minority Students, Black Teenpreneurs and Career Planning for Minority Students, African - African American Folktales, General Black Resources Online, and Black Freebies Online.

Chapter Details:

• Black Parenting Online: This section includes information about websites that focus on Black Parenting, Raising Black Children, Black Mothers, Black Fathers, and Black Maternity.


• Black Homeschoolers: This section includes information about websites that focus on Black / African American Homeschoolers, their support groups, online resources, and literary publications.


• Teaching Black Students: This section includes information about websites that focus on Afrocentric Educational Materials and lesson plans for Black Homeschoolers and Educators of Black Students.


• Teaching Black History: This section includes information about websites that focus on educating others about Black / African American History.


• Teaching about Africa: This section includes information about websites that focus on educating others about Africa, African Culture, and Historical African Events.


• All about Kwanzaa: This section includes information about websites that focus on Kwanzaa information, resources, products, and online activities.


• African and African American Folktales Online: This section includes information about websites that focus on collecting and displaying African / African American Folktales.


• Afrocentric / Multicultural Online Games and Activities: This section includes information about websites that focus on hosting online games and activities with Afrocentric or Multicultural themes.


• Afrocentric / Multicultural Online Resources: This section includes information about websites that focus on promoting or selling Afrocentric / Multicultural products, services, and resources.


• Blicks: Black Flicks for Families & Kids: This section includes information about websites that feature quality Black Movies, Short films and Animated Cartoons for Black Families to enjoy online or purchase in DVD and/or VHS format.


• Black Bookstores: Find Afrocentric Literature for Kids and Teens Online: This section includes information about websites that feature black books, specifically those for young children and teens.


• College Preparation for Minority Students: This section includes information about websites that feature books, scholarships, and other resources for minority students preparing for college.


• Black Teenpreneurs & Career Planning for Minority Students: This section includes information about websites that foster teen entrepreneurship among black youth and provide career planning resources and opportunities for minority students.


• General Black Resources Online: This section includes information about websites that offer black resources in general, with a particular focus on youth orientated content.


• Black Freebies Online for Families and Children: This section includes information about websites that offer freebies to Black Online Viewers.

A Few Words from the author:
I designed this particular guide for Black Parents who are interested in making Afrocentric Learning and exposure to Black Culture an integral part of their children’s development. From support groups to online activities, within this book is an extensive list of over 200 links created just for you and your children. Though it’s often times hard to tell, the internet is actually filled with an increasing number of positive, multicultural web pages. Some are a little harder to find than others, but that’s why you have me to do the searching so all you have to do is sit back and enjoy the sites!

~LaShanda Henry

*This e-Book includes the following type of cultural web links: Black, African, African American, Afrocentric, Africentric, Multicultural.

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According to an article I found on the KSBI Family Television Site, "African American Teen Unemployment More Than Six Times National Rate" If you are looking for alternatives solutions to this problem, there are many youth programs and community initiatives out there that offer African American teens academic, extracurricular, talent, precollege, and career opportunities. Check out my other site: A Better Today, A Brighter Tomorrow (http://msoyonline.com/abtabt/) a resource guide for those looking to find more jobs and programs geered towards African American youth.

A collection of texts about helping Black Students, Parents, and Educators understand Black Education, the College Process, Black Students in America, Black Parenting, etc.

Current Categories:

• College Information for Black Students
• Scholarship Information for Black Students
• Understanding Black Children / Black Students
• Black Girls
• Black Boys
• Black Youth, Wealth, and Finance

The kids love Hip-Hop and that's a fact. You don't have to love it yourself, but you should at the very least be aware of what your children are listening to and what influence their musical tastes have on their lives. Have a rap session about rap music. I doesn't hurt to find out what they are thinking, and actually listen. Watch some music videos, or go to a trendy movie, do something that gets the conversation rolling.

Personally speaking, as someone who can see both the negative and postive aspects of Hip Hop, I think its important to connect with young people on a hip-hop cultural level. You need to be able to at least hear where they are coming from and more importantly be able to highlight the postive contributions one can find within Hip Hop culture. If you feel like the focus is too much one women and cars, shift the focus to other aspects of Hip Hop culture that help articulate the Black Experience and contribute to making ourlives better.

A good place to start is Hip Hop Helpers, a listing I created to explore how Hip Hop Artists and other celebrities of color bring positive growth and development back to the communities in which they were born by creating youth programs and community organizations. Getting your child to try something new could be as simple as exposing them to an outreach program initiated by one of their favorite artists. And I know, there are those who believe such organizations are nothing more than publicity stunts, but I genuinely believe that if they can help one child actualize their dreams, that very fact goes beyond a mere attempt at being in the lime light.

Visit Hip Hop Helpers, and learn more about the different types of community programs started by Hip Hop artists and Black Celebrities. Perhaps you will find something in your area, or at the very least, the list could spark your interest in finding other African American Youth programs.

Hip Hop Helpers
Featured on A Better Today, A Brighter Tomorrow
a resource guide for African American parents and students

The following lists include links, books and films that I have hand picked and feel are age appropriate for Black Children and Teens. Feel free to let me know if something is missing. More links are added on a regular basis, so check back for updates.

• Movies for African American Kids and Black Famliy Movies
• Movies for African American Teens
• African American Children's Books
• Lil Bits: African American Cartoon Characters for Kids
• Sites for Black Kids and Teens
• Sites for Black Parents
• African American / Ethnic Toys

$8.77 The Hip Hop Genera..

This is a great read for anyone who is interested in the hip-hop culture. It is particuclarly good for parents to read, who are interested in finding out what today's young people are thinking and where their head is at, so to speak.

Read a previous post of mine on Africanamerica.org: The Sons and Daughters of Hip-Hop

Also a great Hip-Hop Youth Site is Russell Simmons Hip-Hop Summit. Founded in 2001, the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network (HSAN) is dedicated to harnessing the cultural relevance of Hip-Hop music to serve as a catalyst for education advocacy and other societal concerns fundamental to the well-being of at-risk youth throughout the United States.

A Better Today Brings a Brighter Tommorrow (an msoy original project) is working to create a listing of Hip Hop Helpers and Super Celebs, to showcase the postive impact the Hip-Hop can have on youth and within the community. Click here for more details or find other Community Outreach efforts for / by people of color.