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Just because you are young and Black it doesn’t mean that the world cannot respect you.  Back in the day Fred Hampton, a black 19 year old at the time, started a Chicago chapter of the Black Panthers; they influenced the nationwide lunch programs in American schools. As youth we are too legit to have […]

WhiteHouse.gov | September 14, 2010 The President gives his second annual Back-to-School Speech in Pennsylvania, encouraging students to take responsibility for their educations. Watch the full speech or read highlights.

Lately, I’ve found it exceedingly difficult to blog.  To be sure, it’s not because I lack the desire to write and make you privy to my mental awesomeness each Monday morning, but rather because I’ve essentially checked out of the blogging world.  I wish I could blame it on my dissertation.  (It’s coming along.  Not […]

60 Minutes | September 5, 2010 There’s a school that’s giving kids from an inner-city neighborhood that only graduates 33 percent of its high school students a shot at college they never had before. Byron Pitts reports on the SEED School. (Read more)

Ceelo Green has a new song that has gone viral on YouTube. The song is called Fu*k you. It’s a great song and a song I think many people including myself can relate to—the man who wants an XBOX over me the vintage, Atari. Honestly, the song is simply hilarious and given the many fu*ked […]

CNN | September 1, 2010 Detroit is struggling to reinvent itself when it comes to educating its children. CNN’s Poppy Harlow reports.

Earlier this summer, I’d gone to my local Walgreens to satisfy a craving for peanut M&Ms.  As I stood in the candy aisle deciding just how big of a bag I should purchase, a woman and her two small children joined me in the aisle.  The mother stood there looking over the sale items as […]

CNN | August 26, 2010 CNN’s Soledad O’Brien and filmmaker Spike Lee look at life post-Katrina through the eyes of children.

We all know too well the easiest way to get on television is to either have something tragic happen or to be tragic. It is clear in almost every reality show on television from The Real Housewives Series to The Bad Girls Club to Jersey Shore that we as a world are desperate for three things more than most; for people to either fear us, feel sorry for us, or to laugh at us.

“The unexamined life is not worth living.” This is my reflection of this summer, but as I “reflect” I want to be aware and show my appreciation for the ability and privilege to “reflect.”  When Socrates made that statement I don’t believe he took into account what must take place for one to be able […]

YouTube (via Colorlines) | August 20, 2010 Be sure to also read Fallon’s take on Dodson’s fame. (From Colorlines) Accidental Internet celebrity Antoine Dodson tells ABC News that, although his sister’s attacker is still on the loose, he’s made made a “nice amount of money” off of the infamous “bed intruder” YouTube meme. “Enough to move […]

What happens when you answer the phone to the sound of your mother crying on a hospital bed asking for a kidney? Not a figurative request that represents the love and affection that is due to the person who deposited life into you on the day of birth. Not a theoretical entreaty that allows one […]