2013

Is Willow Smith’s New Song “Summer Fling” Age Appropriate?

Moving Beyond November Together

New Program Allows Public to Send Chicago Police Crime Tips Via Text and Twitter

Rhymes and Reasons Interviews Eve Ewing About the Hip Hop Songs that Changed Her Life

Summer Surge in Gun Violence Forces Chicago Hospital to Hold Blood Drive

Cory Booker Has Huge Lead in NJ Senate Race

Compton, CA Elects Aja Brown; Youngest Mayor in City’s History

Offensive “Angry Trayvon” App Sparks Outrage

Why Fruitvale Station is a Game Changer for Young Black Men

California Prisons Illegally Sterilized Female Inmates

Lauryn Hill Begins Three-Month Prison Sentence for Tax Evasion

VIDEO: Mos Def (Yasiin Bey) Undergoes Force-Feeding in Support of Guantánamo Hunger Strikers

North Carolina 4th of July Parade Marred by ‘White History Month’ Float

16-Year Old Wondagurl Produced a Track on Jay-Z’s New Album

At Least 73 People Shot in Chicago Over 4th of July Weekend

Doing For Each Other What America Won’t Do For Us

Cornel West Talks DOMA and Voting Rights; Says Blacks are Being “Pushed to the Back of the Bus”

Howard Univ. Deans Say Fiscal Mismanagement Has Put School Reputation and Future in Danger

Apply for the YOU Belong: LGBTQA Youth Sports and Leadership Initiative!

Meagan Good Critisized for Presenting BET Gospel Award in Revealing Dress

Pro-Palestinian Organization’s Petition Calls on Alicia Keys to Cancel Israel Concert

Al Sharpton to Move to Chicago to Address Gun Violence

LeVar Burton Explains How He Avoids Being Shot by the Police

Autistic Student Allegedly Disciplined w/ Broomstick

Lupe Fiasco to Chicago Grads: “You have graduated from one of the most terrible, substandard school systems in the entire world”

Kerry Washington is First Black Women to Cover Vanity Fair in a Very Long Time

WATCH: 15-Year Old Aviwe Mtongana Raps for Pres. Obama

Black People Can Handle It: Empathy and Educational Inequity

BET Says They Regret ‘Miscommunication’ w/ B. Scott

Judge Throws Out Three Sexual Abuse Lawsuits Against Kevin Clash

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