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Study: Black Students Who Attend HBCUs More Successful in Math, Technology Andy Monroe, Black Web 2.0, December 8, 2010 According to a recent study done by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, students who attend Historically Black Colleges and Universities are more likely to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). On Monday, […]

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4LVLLjZ9aY When Lebron James found out his mother and teammate were “seeing each other”, when the patriots smashed the bears last weekend, and when Kanye interrupted Taylor Swift at the VMA/MTV awards show. What the common denominator is between all these instances ladies and gentleman is that they represent the breaking point. In everything this capacity for something […]

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iau-e6HfOg0&feature=related Good day niggaz, the non black niggaz that is. Though many black leaders push for the burial of the term, they have not done so on behalf of the other colonized races. A Black multi-cultural person will soon confront the taboo as a minority among members of another culture. This was the case for […]

Just 3 years ago, life seemed to be over for Michael Vick. The first round draft pick who dazzled crowds with his blazing speed and cannon arm seemingly reached the nadir of his life. When defensive ends blitzed Vick, his agility and uncanny vision usually helped him evade tackles and pick up huge chunks of […]

Memorial service remembers accomplished youth Sneh Duggal, Ottawa Citizen, December 12, 2010 Should Oxbridge discriminate to boost the numbers of black students? Sarfraz Manzoor, The Oberver, December 12, 2010 Horse therapy aimed at troubled kids Harold Carmichael, The Sudbury Star, December 12, 2010 Youth show their volunteer spirit in cemetery clean up Angela Brown, Central […]

Black scholars reach into their own pasts to help beleaguered young black men Dawn Turner Trice, Chicago Tribune, December 13, 2010 When Waldo E. Johnson Jr., a University of Chicago social scientist, decided to put together a book on what’s hurting and helping young black men, he decided to collect the thoughts of several black scholars, many […]

Where there are sports, there are rituals, superstitions, and curses. And where there is a black quarterback, there is a contentious relationship with the white head coach, a pending court case, a finished prison sentence, a lost Super Bowl, or an early benching during a game. Where’s the love? Steve McNair. Dead. Duante Culpepper. UFL. […]

December 4th 1969. Officers raided Fred Hampton’s apartment, where he lay asleep (perhaps even drugged) in bed next to his pregnant girlfriend. All because of what he wanted and what he believed. Long before Fred Hampton’s meteoric rise, the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense was the target of a well executed smear campaign led by […]

Last week a black male college student told me that he wasn’t going to study abroad due to monetary issues. I flipped. Sometimes I feel that individuals create barriers for themselves, ones that in reality don’t even exist. Barriers that are only solidified because of a lack of information flow aka not knowing. So my […]

Challenging a Segregated and Unequal School System Donna Nevel, Huffington Post, December 6, 2010 That our nation’s schools are segregated and unequal has been well-documented. In fact, according to a recent report of the Civil Rights Project, UCLA, “Schools in the United States are more segregated today than they have been in more than four […]

Harvard and Yale students say party ban was racist Jon Swaine, The Age News, December 5, 2010 Indian River County Youth Guidance program wishing for volunteers to mentor youngsters Janet Begley, TC Palm News, December 5, 2010 Empowering our youth to lead Tess Baumberger, Galesburg News, December 4, 2010 Parents. educators, discuss help for black […]