I had an opportunity to participate on a faculty panel at LaGuardia Community College to discuss the topic of Black Males in Adult Education this week. I was invited to sit on the panel and critique “Swimming Upstream: Black Males in Adult Education” by my LaGuardia colleague, Dr. Joni Schwartz. The book was the first volume in a series of books that Joni and her colleagues are writing to give voice to important social and pedagogical topics issues facing Blacks in America.
The turnout for the faculty panel discussion was fairly large and it appeared that my comments were well received by the audience. There were so many intelligent young brothers and sisters in the audience that it made me feel encouraged for the future during a time when media representations of black men and women are far from positive. It is my personal hope that my contribution on this panel served to spur the community present to continue the dialogue around diversity, education, and inequality needed on American college campuses.
