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In a rousing commencement speech at Morehouse College, President Obama urged the graduates to use their degrees and ambitious to give back to the community and help the less fortunate.

It is my earnest hope that our black leaders would pause in their pursuit of personal ambition and legacy to stop and look into the eyes of the child of potential that stands before them. A child that – regardless of circumstance and waywardness – can become an agent of change that can dramatically impact the world in which we live.

When I was a little kid everyone would tell me “you are called” or “you have a calling on your life” (mostly older church folks who were overly excited to see an articulate church going black boy). Essentially what they meant was that I would be one of the next “leaders in the black community.” […]

Jay-Z will be on the cover of Time Magazine’s upcoming “100 Most Influential People in the World” issue, with Mayor Michael Bloomberg writing an article about him.

Sandra Arnold, a history student at Fordham University, has created a database that allows participants to mark the burial sites of slaves, thus protecting them from being trampled by time and construction projects. This is a fantastic and vital initiative.

Filmmaker and activist Mary F. Morten’s documentary Woke Up Black will screen at Harold Washington College, 30 East Lake Street, Room 103, in downtown Chicago on Monday, February 25, at 3 p.m. Don’t miss this fascinating film. More info after the jump!

The youth of generation Y struggle to overstand the meaning of their actions; I know this since my daily fate mingles with the universal problems for youth. I felt so bad the other evening, I felt like I wasn’t doing anything with my life. These are the days of my personal history in which I […]

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.

Arkansas Rep. Jon Hubbard: Slavery was a blessing in disguise for Black people, black students generally lack discipline and ambition, and integration resulted in white students dropping “to the level of black students.” Wow.

What it means to know the “male mind” is nothing other than knowing the crux of a structure. It may be that we extract and store knowledge to navigate the rules determined by the social world. Television shows, movies, radio programs encode the idol, the archetypical male.

9 year-old Joshua Smith made headlines when he opened a lemonade stand in front of his home to raise money for the city of Detroit. In less than a week, Smith raised $3,000 for his hometown. Nicely done, little guy!

  “…This innocent country set you down in a ghetto in which, in fact, it intended that you should perish. Let me spell out precisely what I mean by that for the heart of the matter is here and the crux of my dispute with my country. You were born where you were born and […]