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Congratulations to Gabby Douglas; she just won the gold medal in the individual all-around competition!
Gabby Douglas, the 16-year-old gymnastics phenom, helped the US women’s team claim gold yesterday in London. Congrats to Gabby and the rest of the team.
According to a variety of studies, Black teens drink less alcohol than their white peers. ANd while the reason why remains unclear, a recent study suggests “racial differences in personality traits” explains this phenomenon. What do you think?
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 […]
News anchor and new BET talk show host TJ Holmes was pulled over yesterday just minutes away from his Atlanta home.
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!
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?
“The Negro people of Montgomery, exhausted by the humiliating experiences that they had constantly faced on the buses, expressed in a massive act of non-cooperation their determination to be free. They came to see that it was ultimately more honorable to walk the streets in dignity than to ride the buses in humiliation…This principle became […]
They build in the name of development. An inanimate concept that creates debts between those living in the first world countries and those dying in third and developing constructs, even when privilege stares into the eyes of poverty, the rich would still displace millions just to construct. The Irony is that in the name of […]
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.
According to the National Youth Risk Behavior Survey, released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday, risky sexual behavior amongst black youth has significantly declined in the past 20 years.
