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9 Year-Old Joshua Smith’s Lemonade Stand Raises $3,000 for Detroit
9 year-old Joshua Smith made headlines when he opened a lemonade stand in front of his home to raise money for the city of Detroit. In less than a week, Smith raised $3,000 for his hometown. Nicely done, little guy!
17 year-old Olympian Lia Neal Wins Bronze Medal
17 year-old swimmer Lia Neal won a bronze medal as a member of the US 4×100-meter freestyle relay team on Saturday night!
New Research Suggests President Obama is the Descendant of Slaves
Today, the genealogy website Ancestry.com released research suggesting that President Barack Obama is the descendant of slaves–on his mother’s side. Thoughts on this latest journey into the POTUS’ heritage?
Lupe Fiasco Sheds Tears Over Lost Friends and Chicago Violence
Upon watching his appearance on a 2006 taping of “My Block: Chicago,” Lupe Fiasco became emotional, shedding tears for friends in the clip who have passed on, and mourning the continued violence that currently plagues the Windy City.
Say WHAT!? Mary J. Blige Cast as Malcolm X’s Widow
Mary J. Blige has been cast to play Betty Shabazz in the upcoming film, Parallel Lives, a television film about Shabazz and Coretta Scott King, the widows of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr., respectively. Do you think Blige has the acting chops to pull this off?
Meet TheRoot.com’s 2012 Young Futurists: Black Youth changing our world
The 2012 Young Futurists are a diverse group of intelligent and engaged young people between the ages of 16-22 that are doing amazing things for our world. Our friends over at The Root have compiled an awesome list of young African American innovators. Learn more at BlackYouthProject.com!
FUGEES – "How Many Mics" Live from the Apollo 1996
Good morning! Ur BYP WakeUpCall – FUGEES perfoming “How Many Mics” at the Apollo in 1996! There’s a jaw-dropping L-Boogie freestyle, an incredibly ugly suit worn by Steve Harvey, and (potentially) a young Ashanti in the crowd. Check it out at www.wp.blackyouthproject.com!
BYP NEWSFLASH: Obama at CBC Week, Wangari Maathai Dies, Racist Bake Sales at UC Berkeley, Sly Stone Is Homeless and MORE!
BYP MORNING NEWSFLASH September 26, 2011 President Obama spoke passionately at the Congressional Black Caucus awards dinner this past Saturday, and he had a few choice words for the leaders of his most important voting bloc. According to BlackVoices: “’Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,’ he said, his voice rising […]
MUSICNEWS: Ice-T Doesn't Like Hip-POP, Record Execs Trafficking COCAINE, and Rihanna's New Album
MUSICNEWS: Ice-T Doesn’t Like Hip-POP, Record Execs Trafficking COCAINE, and Rihanna’s New Album Coming Soon…
The Viral Video, EBT: We Have Failed You, Chapter . . . An Open Letter
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzspsovNvII&feature=youtu.be Dear Chapter, Once upon a time when I was a little brown girl and the economy was really bad because of Reganomics, my “employed” and single black mother received food assistance to help feed her two daughters because her minimal wage check could not fully cover rent and the daily luxuries of milk, eggs, […]
Commercial Break: Athlete Slash Musician
It seems I’ve been more polemical than usual these last few weeks. So how about something completely worthless and asinine–ok, more worthless and asinine than what I usually post here–this Monday? Because, frankly, all I have to say about The Help‘s (and The Smurfs’) continued box office success this weekend is: Effing really‽‽ (God bless the interrobang.) Anyway, in case […]
Weekly News Round-Up: Aug 1st – August 7th, 2011
Aug 1st – 7th White supremacist principal running Bronx school with majority black and Latino students Corinne Lestch, Daily News Writer, 8/1/11 The Racist Scourge Roger Cohen, The New York Times , 8/1/11 Choosing Between an HBCU And a PWI Ja’el Gordon, Huffington Post, 8/3/11 Strategic Plan for CHS Aims to […]