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Teens walk in hopes of stopping violence Staff Writer, WLOX News, January 30 2011 Death penalty sends negative message to youth Staff Writer, The Catholic Sentinel, January 29, 2011 Pa. School Defends Separating Blacks for Homeroom Dana Chivvis, AOL News, January 28, 2011 Pennsylvania school experiments with ‘segregation’ Monika Plocienniczak, CNN, January 27, 2011 Massachusetts Invests $4.4 Million To […]

I grew up in Chicago with a mom that was overzealous about education.  By the time I was twelve, I’d gone to seven different schools.  I went to one school for Kindergarten, two schools for first grade, I was home-schooled halfway through second grade and then started at a new school where I stayed for […]

BBC recently started a survey to answer the question: Does class still matter? Of course, the answer should be a resounding hell yes. But the question runs deeper than that. How does class affect us? What does it mean to be upwardly mobile? Is upward mobility good? Is a meritocracy ideal? We are inclined to […]

I walked up to a 40-foot high fence, while noticing a small yellow sign in the peripheral. The sign said “Caution: High Voltage Fence.” It was made apparent that I was entering into what I could only understand as one of the many manifestations of an incarceration system. When I entered through the front door […]

Black Mother Jailed For Sending Kids To White School District Dr. Boyce Watkins, News One | January 25, 2011 Ohio – An Ohio mother of two was sentenced to 10 days in jail and placed on three years probation after sending her kids to a school district in which they did not live. Kelly Williams-Bolar […]

I sat under the air conditioning in a charter bus and simultaneously struggled with and enjoyed my privilege. This image is the manifestation of the division of two individuals who are phenotypically similar enough to be mistaken. It is in this context in which both individuals (myself and a South African child named Michelle) become […]

Republican school board in N.C. backed by tea party abolishes integration policy Stephanie McCrummen, Washington Post, January 12, 2011 RALEIGH, N.C. – The sprawling Wake County School District has long been a rarity. Some of its best, most diverse schools are in the poorest sections of this capital city. And its suburban schools, rather than being […]

One of the most crucial political acts is to define what is political. The capacity to construct political reality is the ability to define the difference between democracy and dictatorship, slavery and abolitionism, legitimacy and dishonesty. Politics or the social affairs in the context of race have been contrary to what I thought as popular […]

*Someone please cue my righteous indignation music* It seems that we have officially reached the end of days.  Birds are falling out of the sky; dead fish are coming in with the tide.  News outlets are doing their best not to refer to Jared Loughner’s acts as ones of terrorism, and simply make efforts to […]

This January, Jasiri X is preparing the release of his latest mixtape “Rappers on X”, which features many of the collaborations X has done over that past year including tracks with Planet Asia, Brother J of X-Clan, Hasan Salaam, Mac Miller, Kam, Yung Bruh, NYOIL, Chen Lo, Ayatollah Jaxx, Futuristic, J Pinder, E.D.G.E., Ghosty, and […]

If you are like me and want to know more about the Affordable Care Act be prepared to wade through the murky waters of fact versus fiction.  Moreover, much if not all of what is heard about the Affordable Care Act has been the GOP’s advertisements and slander of the law, which as far as content is concerned amounts to noise. […]

Bloomberg Makes a Proposal on Youth Prisons Russ Buettner, New York Times | December 22, 2010 Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said Tuesday that he would ask New York State to turn over control of prisons and services for juvenile offenders to local governments, a move that he said would end the failed and costly practice of […]