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Tribal relationships—unions of people that involve romance and creativity—are hard to maintain because of conflicting worldviews. What it means to be a man or womyn in love causes problems for many tribes because their demands and dreams clash without a middle ground. Since I’m raised to be a black male by other black males, my […]

By the time many young adults hit the age of 21, their primary concern is hitting the closest bar. Not Ola Orekunrin. Orekunrin, who has been a medical doctor since she was 21-years-old, has founded The Flying Doctors, West Africa’s first air ambulance service.

Given the kind of stuff that I cover here, sometimes certain blogs are obligatory. This is one of them. A few weeks ago, I read an article about Toni Morrison, who has begun promoting her latest novel, Home, available to readers next month. As usual, I found Morrison’s words to be absurdly phenomenal and inspiring. I […]

Our weekly round-up of news related directly or indirectly to issues impacting the lives of young Black people. February 13-17, 2012

The Voice. When one is colloquially known as such, it becomes easy to forget that such sound emanates from inside a human being. The Voice. A disembodied moniker. So spectacularly general, simply an article and noun sans the dressing of more instructive, clarifying wording: “of reason” or “of God” or “of an angel.” The Voice. […]

On the eve of the 2010 midterm elections, I got together with Paradise the Architech and Cynik Lethal to do an ode to a group of Republican Women candidates I thought were well…crazy. Call it the Sarah Palin effect. At the time, Palin was still relevant and considered the Queen of the Tea Party. Cynik […]

Dating and relationships are touchy subjects with my friends these days. We’re at that strange point in our lives where half of us are in committed relationships and half of us are single but all of us are still trying to figure out what the hell we want. I recently had dinner with several of […]

Hollywood is so full of liberal do-gooders always on the cutting edge. As such, in advance of Black History Month, they have bestowed many acting awards upon members of the cast of The Help, namely Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer, who both won SAG Awards last night. Perhaps it was because the embarrassingly entertaining Real Housewives of […]

Growing up as a child certain things were told to me by older people, I listened to some and the rest of it went in one ear and out the other. It is hard being a man and even harder being a black man. It is very prevalent stereotypes that are associated with being a […]

BYP MORNING NEWSFLASH September 27, 2011   It’s been a couple days since President Obama’s controversial speech at a CBC dinner on Saturday, and the feud between President Obama and the Black intelligentsia continues to swell. Maxine Waters has voiced her displeasure with the wording and tone of the President’s speech, and Tavis Smiley is […]

Last week, America’s Next Top Model brought an All Star Season of previous ANTM contenders onto the catwalk in the season premier. Ratings of ANTM having been sinking for a while now, this is clearly a pull-out-all-the-gimics twist on the series infused with all types of contradiction. Tyra persists with her usual persona, self-mocking and […]

Behold, the power of Hip Hop. MSNBC’s report regarding Hip Hop’s influence on the Arab Spring is mindblowing. It proves that the very idea of Hip Hop as an artform crosses all ethnic, religious, economic and geographical boundaries. Hip Hop is about speaking truth to power and holding it accountable. Hip Hop is about relaying your […]