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Jasiri X, Dee-1, and Rhymefest (Photo by Paradise Gray) The game is changing, especially in Hip-Hop. Now more than ever people are demanding more lyricism and content in their music. Just take a look at the list of MCs deemed the future of rap music, names like Kendrick Lamar, Jay Electronica, J. Cole and Big […]

After two year’s hiatus, 17-year old “prodigy” of rap group Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All (OFWGKTA), launched his twitter account, announcing that Earl Sweatshirt is “home.” Shortly after, a youtube video with a snippet of an unheard track featured Sweatshirt demanding 50,000 followers on twitter within a day in exchange for new music. […]

“I’m a Democrat. But I believe what Republican Abraham Lincoln believed: That Government should do for people only what they cannot do better by themselves, and no more. That’s why my education reform offers more competition, and more control for schools and States.” In President Obama’s state of the Union address, education was one of his […]

Don’t miss #BARACKTALK 2012, an online State of the Union watch party and panel, set to go down Tuesday night during and after President Obama’s State of the Union address. The event, co-sponsored by The League of Young Voters, All Hip Hop, Rock The Vote, the Sierra Student Coalition, and The Black Youth Project, goes down tonight at 7:30PM EST.

Youth Center Helps Empower Teens Kristi Pihl, The News Tribune, 1/9/12 White teens with noose threaten black student Jeremy Detter, HDR News, 1/10/12 Fair punishment? Racial disparities in school suspensions Maggie Gordon, Stamford Advocate, 1/10/12 LGBT National Black Justice Coalition calls for hate-crime investigation in FAMU hazing death Steve Rothaus, GS Florida, 1/11/12 Are students […]

SIGN THIS PETITION: National Black Justice Coalition Calls For Hate Crime Investigation in FAMU Hazing Death. Learn more at BlackYouthProject.com!

Che “Rhymefest” Smith and Jasiri X outside 16th St Baptist Church in Birmingham (Photo by Paradise Gray) State Senator Scott Beason, one of the principle architects of Alabama’s anti-immigration bill HB56, is a racist. That’s not just my opinion, that’s what he was called by U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson. Beason was a key witness […]

Chino XL, Rhymefest, Immortal Technique, Jasiri X (Photo by Paradise Gray) Most of the discussion around rap music is almost always about it’s negative effects. Blog after blog of so called intellectuals rant about mainstream rap music’s bad influence on youth. I often wonder why they never mention the countless MCs all over the country […]

Check out this fascinating article about Occupy Harlem, and why the Occupy movement ain’t just a “white thing.” There are definitely prominent Black voices in the movement. Activists and scholars like Angela Davis and Cornell West have been major supporters of the movement since practically day one; Dr. West was even  arrested on October 21st […]

A Global  Youth Rebellion Staff Writer, Workers World News, 10/23/11   NAACP speaker: We must address achievement gap Kevin Barlow, Pantagraph News, 10/24/11   Inner city youth leader to speak Mark Guydish, The Times Leader, 10/24/11   Obama courts young voters Nia-Malika Henderson, Washington Post, 10/26/11   Coalition of African American Leaders Takes Aim at […]

AN EQUATION FOR DISASTER: Black Youth + Poverty – Jobs = Screwed By Deven D. Anderson, Black Youth Vote! Deven D. Anderson is surrounded by civil rights leaders Wade Henderson (right) and Jesse Jackson as he represents black youth during a recent press conference in DC Washington, DC – It is a critical time in […]

Racism grows classier and more refined every day, but it never goes away. How else can we explain the American people tolerating the unprecedented disrespect, racism, obstruction and outright legislative terrorism being perpetrated by the GOP?