Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD

We Must Not Surrender Our Culture Worrill’s World By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD BlackCommentator.com Columnist Dr. Asa G. Hilliard’s book, The Maroon Within Us, once again reminds us of a major problem that we, as African people in America, are besieged by. Dr. Hilliard described this problem as cultural surrender. In explaining the problem,…

Throughout most of our lives, African people in America have been told if you get a good education you can get a good job. African people in Africa were told something similar. If you get a good education your condition in life will improve. In the early part of the twentieth-century until the late 1960s…

We must stop the “Miseducation” of our youth. We must help our youth to redefine the reality of the institutions that affect us. The political behavior of a certain sector of Africans in America leadership in the educational arena should cause us to ask the question, “What is the real meaning of education?” Education is…

Each August that we celebrate Marcus Garvey’s birthday, we should revisit his contributions and study the works of this great African hero. Marcus Garvey left a rich historical legacy for us to study and utilize in our continued quest for independence and liberation as a people. Since the Paris Peace Conference, the founding of the…

Remembering a Chicago Basketball Legend Worrill’s World By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD BlackCommentator.com Columnist With all of the talk of basketball free agency and the controversy surrounding this issue as it relates to Le Braun James and his fellow basketball greats deciding their own fate in the game, my memory took me back to…

Reparations is the Key Issue Facing African People in the 21st Century Worrill’s World By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD BlackCommentator.com Columnist On Friday, July 16, 2010, Attorney Roger Wareham of the December 12th Movement from Brooklyn, New York, will speak at a Community Forum on the issue of Reparations at the Jacob H. Carruthers…

In this present era of economic and educational onslaught against the African Community in America, it is important that we understand that the rise of the African Centered Education Movement should be linked to our quest for economic independence. We must free the “African mind” through African Centered Educational activities so that we might better…

The National Black United Front (NBUF) is preparing for the Thirty-first Annual National Convention to be held in Kansas City, Missouri from July 22-24, 2010 at the African Centered Education Collegium Campus, 6410 Swope Parkway. The theme of this year’s convention is “Unity & Peace vs. Conflict & Violence.” Dr. Lance Williams Khepra, Assistant Director…

Preparing for NBUF’s 31st National Convention Worrill’s World By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD BlackCommentator.com Columnist The National Black United Front (NBUF) is preparing for the Thirty-first Annual National Convention to be held in Kansas City, Missouri from July 22-24, 2010 at the African Centered Education Collegium Campus, 6410 Swope Parkway. The theme of this…