3790 Search results for "full"

Earlier this week, Gucci Mane unveiled what has to be the ugliest, most absurd tattoo of all time. Amid his multiple arrests (and an extended stay in the psych ward), Gucci found the time to have a massive ice cream cone tattooed across the side of his face. Look closely and you’ll notice a small […]

Dear Yemaja (Lucumi/Santeria Mother Goddess), Last year, I wrote a blog entitled, Some Natural Disasters are not so Natural but Vodou (Spirit) will Prevail. Yes, I wrote that Spirit and Spirits would rise and rattle those who seek to indebt and control Haiti. I wrote that Haiti would rise. I wrote that Vodou—a spiritual and […]

Republican school board in N.C. backed by tea party abolishes integration policy Stephanie McCrummen, Washington Post, January 12, 2011 RALEIGH, N.C. – The sprawling Wake County School District has long been a rarity. Some of its best, most diverse schools are in the poorest sections of this capital city. And its suburban schools, rather than being […]

HLN | January 12, 2011

One of the most crucial political acts is to define what is political. The capacity to construct political reality is the ability to define the difference between democracy and dictatorship, slavery and abolitionism, legitimacy and dishonesty. Politics or the social affairs in the context of race have been contrary to what I thought as popular […]

Why Low Performing Schools Need Digital Media Craig Watkins, Huffington Post, January 9, 2011 When the social and digital media revolution gained momentum at the dawn of the new millennium, no one would have predicted that less than a decade later black and Latino youth would be just as engaged as their white, Asian, and […]

A Double Standard in Case of Missing Black Teen? Sheryl Huggins Salomon,  The Root, January 9, 2011 Would there be more media attention to Phylicia Simone Barnes’ disappearance if she were white? Baltimore police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi suggests that this is the case. “I can’t see how this case is any different from Natalee Holloway,”Guglielmi said, […]

*Someone please cue my righteous indignation music* It seems that we have officially reached the end of days.  Birds are falling out of the sky; dead fish are coming in with the tide.  News outlets are doing their best not to refer to Jared Loughner’s acts as ones of terrorism, and simply make efforts to […]

Unemployment falls to 9.4 percent, black teen joblessness still highest Associated Press (via The Grio) | January 7, 2011 WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. unemployment rate dropped to 9.4 percent last month, its lowest level in 19 months. That was because more Americans found jobs, but also because some people gave up on their job searches. The Labor […]

Universities Are Challenged as Demographics Shift Reeve Hamilton and Jon Marcus, Texas Tribune (via NY Times), January 1, 2010 In August, 60 years after the University of Texas admitted its first black student, the school welcomed the first freshman class in which white students were in the minority. White students, who accounted for 51 percent of […]

Pennsylvania Parents Sue Lower Merion School District For Wrongly Classifying Children As Special Needs Students Huffington Post | January 4, 2011 More than three years ago, parents and students in suburban Philadelphia filed suit against their school district for classifying black children as special education students improperly. Finally, a trial for Blunt et al v. Lower […]

“Africa is a metaphysical testing ground in which Europeans used to get to know itself.” I have only been in South Africa for two days, and through my experiences and classes that I have taken I see the history of a beautiful country twisted into the realms of imperialistic patterns. As a Black American on […]