DeKALB – The Association of Black Psychologists, a student-led organization run through the NIU department of Psychology, allows members to meet once a week to talk about current topics and events happening around the world involving the Black community. ABPSI, who meet from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. on Thursdays in the Holmes Student Center,.
and spent some time with a number of phenomenal young black male teachers from around the country who are part of the freedom schools, and it was amaze to go talk to them. it was an absolutely inspiring conversation. and many of them said, you know, i was going to go into finance, i was going to be a corporate lawyer. and decided to, you know, be part of the freedom school to help out while i was in college, and it changed my life. it absolutely changed my life. and they ve gone into teaching and made huge, personal and financial sacrificeds to do that. what do you get from that experience, do you believe, from having the black male teaching in classrooms, in urban areas, where you have large, black student population? i think all of our students benefit. white, black, hispanic, boys and girls benefit by having strong, black males in the classroom. but particularly our young black males. and when i talk to these teachers, those few and not enough, but those black teachers, they tal