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Revisiting an Experiment on Race
ABC News | March 9, 2010
Mo'Nique on Mary Jones: "Everybody deserves to be loved."
CNN | March 8, 2010 Last night, Mo’Nique joined an exclusive list of Oscar-winning African-American women. She spoke backstage about what the win meant to her as well as how she felt about her villainous character in “Precious.”
Young People Make Film about AIDS and the Black Community
via Black AIDS Institute | August 13, 2009 In “Why Us? Left Behind and Dying,” 20 Students from Westinghouse High School in Pittsburgh PA work with filmmakers to discover why AIDS is ravaging the African-American Community.
Vanessa Williams Calls "The Blind Side" Another White Savior Flick
ABC | March 7, 2010 Vanessa Williams spoke with the women of “The View” about what she felt about the Academy Award-winning film, “The Blind Side.”
Lee Daniels on His Oscar Nominations
The Grio | March 3, 2010 Daniels: [African-Americans] have to get out of the ‘Huxtable’ mode of trying to be perfect,” Daniels said of the famous Cosby Show family. “There’s so many elements of African-American culture and families that we choose not to examine.
Funny or Die's Presidential Reunion
Funny or Die.com | March 3, 2010 The SNL presidents of the past join together to provide words of wisdom to President Obama.
A Girl Like Me
A documentary by Kiri Davis | 2006 Color is more than skin deep for young African-American women struggling to define themselves. (Read more about the film here.)
Obama Announces Plan to Lower High School Dropout Rates
via CNN.com | March 1, 2010 Today, President Obama attended a press conference in which he introduced a plan to address and tackle the nation’s high school dropout crises. The new mobilization campaign is called Grad Nation and more information can be found below. On March 1, 2010, General Colin Powell, America’s Promise Alliance Chair […]
Tavis Smiley and Al Sharpton: The Street Fight Edition who will wear the Hood Crown
Some of you are wondering what this word “prognosticator” means. Well, I’m glad you asked young grass hopper. Webster defines it as someone who predicts the future or as someone who speaks powerful insights. Perhaps, at one point Tavis Smiley and Al Sharpton spoke powerful insights on behalf of Black communities. Of course, this was […]
Strengthening America's Historically Black Colleges and Universities
WhiteHouse.gov | February 26, 2010 President Obama signs an executive order to strengthen the capacity of and increase access to Federal funding for the Nation’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
Managing High Expectations
ESPN.com Florida State football star and NFL prospect, Myron Rolle talks about what it means to be a Rhodes Scholar. Read the ESPN story here.
White Sorority Wins 2010 Sprite Step-Off
via Youtube | February 22, 2010 The ladies of Zeta Tau Alpha from the University of Arkansas won the $100,000 1st place prize at last weekend’s Sprite Step Off-Challenge in Atlanta. We have been hearing mixed responses about this result–mixed because ZTA is a white sorority that received the shine participating in a historically black […]