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NAACP urges minorities to get to polls in 2012 Associated Press (via USA Today) | July 27, 2011 LOS ANGELES (AP) — The NAACP plans a big push to increase minority turnout in the 2012 elections, hoping to gain political influence and turn back what the civil rights group says are efforts in various states to […]

Homeless high school grad returns to Brooklyn to help kids like himself get to college BEN CHAPMAN, New York Daily News | July 25, 2011 Homeless high school grad Orayne Williams has returned to the city after his first year away at college – and he’s on a mission to help other street kids get an education. […]

Jorge Rivas, Colorlines | July 18, 2011 Thirteen-year-old Autum Ashante is a child prodigy. She could read at age 2, and by 3 she was writing and performing poetry. Less than ten years later, at the age of 12, the Bronx native graduated high school and is now widely known as a poet, United Nations […]

Young, homeless gays wander streets of Boystown Erin Meyer, Chicago Tribune, July 17, 2011 Michigan’s obesity problem: Why are we so fat? Nancy Zielinski, Examiner, July 16, 2011 Woodland Hills Youth Development Center Career Fair Richard Garrett, Clarksville Online, July 16, 2011 Volunteers help improve Black Hills homes Mark Van Gerpen, Black Hills Pioneer, July […]

Filling In Bubbles:  Test Driven School Reform and Disengaging Working Class Youth Mark Naison (via NewBlackMan) | June 29, 2011 If I was going to figure out a plan to get working class youth to disengage from school, here would be my major components. First, I would make students sit at their desks all day […]

Vick surprises 2 grads with $5,000 scholarships Kathy Matheson, Associated Press (via The Grio) | June 13, 2011 PHILADELPHIA (AP) – In the minutes before giving his first commencement speech, Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick professed to be more nervous than before a football game. He had nothing to worry about. A lovingly raucous crowd of […]

First Anti-Gang Violence Education Clinic in Harlem Daa’iya L. Sanusi, New York Amsterdam News (via New America Media) | June 7, 2011 “There are no closed doors in my mother’s house” was one of the first lessons offered by Iesha Sekou, executive director of Street Corner Resources during the first annual Assemblyman Keith L.T. Wright Anti-Gang […]

MSNBC | June 7, 2011 Asenath Andrews, principal of the Catherine Ferguson Academy in Detroit, talks with Rachel Maddow about the city’s plan to close a school for students who are pregnant or with a small child.  

Jordan Brand Signs Maya Moore Chris, O’Leary, SLAM | May 18, 2011 Maya Moore isn’t that much different from any other fresh-out-the-collegiate-box graduate. After kicking a lot of ass in college, she landed the job she’s best suited for. Then she signed an endorsement deal with Jordan Brand, becoming the brand’s first female basketball signee. The […]

Nearly Half of All Black College Graduates Never Had A Black Professor: Did You? Leslie Pitterson, Clutch Magazine | May 17, 2011 As the graduation season is in full swing, we’re reminded that nearly half of black college students were never taught by a professor of their own race. According to a survey, from YourBlackWorld.com: […]

As I watched Barack Obama walk away from the podium Sunday night with his Presidential swagger full in tact, I became full with emotion. Don’t get me wrong I wasn’t one of the jingoistic people dancing around in red, white, and blue playing “America, f*** yeah”. I left that to some of my classmates. I […]

Pregnant High Schoolers Arrested for Protesting Closure of Their School Britni Daniels, Clutch Magazine, April 28, 2011 Unfortunately more people aren’t talking about this… Recently, students and teachers at the Catherine Ferguson Academy, a Detroit-area school for pregnant girls and young mothers, got the unfortunate news that it will possibly face closure at the end […]