During an appearance on Meet the Press, Colin Powell confronted his own party and its the continued race-baiting and elitism. Do you agree with Colin Powell? Is there hope for the GOP to shed its reliance on racism and hate?
Megan Piphus, an upperclassman at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, recently appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. She’s using music, ventriloquism, and puppetry, to inspire youth to dream big and in color!
Students at Chicago’s King College Prep High School staged a sit-in on Thursday, demanding that their principal, Shontae Higginbottom resign.
Although he was handcuffed, searched, and then put in the back of a patrol car, police and student officials are claiming that a Houston-area high school student was rushed to the hospital after shooting himself.
A slew of nasty text messages were sent to unsuspecting voters’ phones yesterday, criticizing President Obama with anti-gay and largely false attacks. But is this shady, underhanded kind of campaigning even effective?
A photo of University of Florida frat boys attending a Halloween party in blackface has sparked controversy and intense debate online. Unsurprisingly, opinions varied on the appropriateness of white people wearing blackface. Because in 2012, this is somehow still up for debate.
15 year-old Felicia Garcia jumped to her death in front of over 200 of her classmates after weeks of bullying. Her final tweet said simply: “I cant, im done, I give up”
Students at Wilberforce University, the first college to be owned and operated by blacks, are threatening to leave the school. Is this yet another warning of a major crisis for HBCUs? What can be done to save Wilberforce and other schools with similar circumstances?
In the wake of last week’s debate disaster for President Obama, the importance of tonight’s VP debate cannot be overstated. The Dems are counting on Joe Biden to turn out a phenomenal performance that will hopefully reignite momentum for the Obama campaign. Can he pull it off?
Very few athletes, or any person in the public eye for that matter, handle themselves with the amount of humility and class that Derrick Rose does. And I for one am so glad that he can be someone who kids look up to. More kids will believe that they can make it. Because he did.
Check out Samuel L’s profanity-laced plea to anyone considering sitting out election day come November; “Wake the f**k up!”
The recent spate of unjust voter ID laws has spurred a surge in activism and advocacy across the country. Chicago’s Trinity United Church of Christ has stepped up the plate, leading the fight against these laws by committing to registering as many young people as possible before the October 9th deadline. The movement is being […]
