![]() ![]() “You can only be what you see, so if you don’t see African-American males in leadership positions and teaching positions then you won’t think you can achieve that.” ![]() “I think in our community a lot of people would rather psychoanalyze and to assess African-American boys and men in particular in terms of the damage they perceive they cause as opposed to the damage they endure,” Raiford said in a later interview with the New Pittsburgh Courier. Despite Raiford’s proven record of success with at-risk students, the discussion by his fellow panelists failed to explore what really makes Imani successful.ĮLDER MILTON RAIFORD (Photo by J.L. However, at Imani Christian Academy, a private K-12 school in the East Hills, the dropout rate is zero.Īt the Symposium on Reducing Youth Violence at Manchester Bidwell Corporation June 17, participants heard from Imani Headmaster Elder Milton Raiford. in 2006, 35 percent of Pittsburgh’s high school students drop out without graduating.
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