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This past weekend I took a break from the monotony of the “ivory tower”. I threw down my books and pushed aside my assignments so I could be entertained. My friends and I decided that with midterms rapidly approaching we needed a few good laughs to maintain our sanity, so we decided to go see […]

Those of us who lament the current incarnation of the NBA despite Lebron James’ and Chris Paul’s (he’s soooo cute — no hetero) greatness do so because we remember the golden age of the league.  (Are you looking for Kobe love?  You won’t get that here.  Move along.)  Those of us born in the 80s […]

Ford’s Insensitivity and Ignorance Bill Maxwell, St. Petersburg Times, October 25, 2009 Summit Series Targets Achievement Gap; Richardson Will Host Private Talks Journal Staff Report, Albuquerque Journal, October 24, 2009 LR district studies survival ideas if desegregation aid cut Cynthia Howell, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, October 24, 2009 Forum looks at minority youths in justice system Matthew […]

ACLU: DeSoto Country Retaliating Against Student Shelia Byrd, Biloxi Sun Herald, October 19, 2009 Making the Grade Isn’t About Race. It’s About Parents. Patrick Welsh, Washington Post, October 18, 2009 Official: Black Colleges ‘Stuck in Survive’ Jordan Blum, The Advocate, October 17, 2009 Small Steps, Not Big Leaps to Help Pinellas’ Black Students Ron Matus […]

Am I really that scary? I’m  only 5’9’’ 180 pounds.  This is what I asked myself when a girl ran away from me as I walked down Ellis Avenue two weeks ago. Initially I was flabbergasted by her reaction. Did I look like a criminal? I had on an under armour shirt and some old […]

A week before I returned to University of Chicago for my second year of college, I encountered what I like to call “an incident.” My brother, on this particular day followed his normal pattern of entering the basement room of my mother’s house in a drunken state. His drinking problem is one thing, but his […]

Inner-city L.A. hungers for good grocery stores Daniel B. Wood, The Christian Science Monitor, October 10, 2009 Merit of Stop-Frisk Law at Issue Colleen Long, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, October 9, 2009 Schools Cited on Discipline of Minority Special-Ed Students Holly Prestidge, Richmond Times-Dispatch, October 9, 2009 Two ways Chicago can curb its youth violence epidemic Amanda […]

So, I woke up this morning feeling groggy and moody because there was a fire in my apartment complex last night. So, I didn’t sleep well. However, like most mornings, I got up hoping that the world would be a little less racist, a little less sexist, a little less homophobic, and a little less […]

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHihFA8q8xI&feature=player_embedded In August of this year the critically acclaimed sci-fi thriller District 9 debuted, boasting an exotic location, foreign languages, and blacks and whites united against a common threat—Prawns.  The Prawns are aliens whose intergalactic automobile (most likely a Ford) has broken down on the wrong side of town—just above Johannesburg.  Depicted as scary and […]

There are so many interesting things to write about this week. I could write about Oprah trying to rap with the overly sponsored poster child of a good rapper, Jay Z. Or, I could write about the 25th Anniversary of the Cosby Show and how I can’t stand the grown-up version of Rudy Huxtable, Keshia […]

Belleville protest, counter-protest, over bus attack Blythe Bernard, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, September 27, 2009 Northwestern med school takes different look at preventing violence Rex W. Huppke, Chicago Tribune, September 23, 2009 Chicago school violence: District rushes to put anti-violence plan in place as gunfire claims new victims Azam Ahmed, Chicago Tribune, September 22, 2009

Hampton’s Forgotten Legacy Mary Mitchell, Chicago Sun-Times, September 6, 2009 A Simple Map to School Success Roger Chesley, The Virginian-Pilot, September 5, 2009 Deep Dark Secrets Revealed – Based on a True Story of a Young African-American Man Who Struggled With His Identity, Masculinity, Spirituality, and Sexuality Globe Newswire, September 4, 2009