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Aug 29th- Sept 4th   Obama Incites Some Folks to Violent Rage over New Voter Initiative Kirsten West Savali, YBW News, 8/30/11   Loot the dream looters! Youth are right to rebel! Staff Writer, Workers World, 8/31/11   Black Gay Pride kicks off tonight with vigil, youth summit Laura Douglas-Brown, GA Voice, 8/31/11   Why […]

Integration, while necessary, cost us more than we might have initially thought. I’m not the first person to make this statement and I won’t be the last. Simply put, the costs of integration were high. Before integration became federal law, Black people lived in tight-knit communities where they went to school with familiar faces, patronized […]

On top of America’s legacy of racism there’s nothing more upsetting than the absence of guilt, from the racists of course. Not even the first sentence describes the severity of our situation, especially when there are tv shows, Bait Car for instance, that broadcast the hatred of Black youth. Every time I’ve watched Bait Car, […]

NAACP urges minorities to get to polls in 2012 Associated Press (via USA Today) | July 27, 2011 LOS ANGELES (AP) — The NAACP plans a big push to increase minority turnout in the 2012 elections, hoping to gain political influence and turn back what the civil rights group says are efforts in various states to […]

Youth Speaks’ Brave New Voices a big draw David Wagner, San Francisco Chronicle | July 19, 2011 Brave New Voices, the annual slam-poetry competition put on by San Francisco spoken-word nonprofit Youth Speaks, has come a long way since its inception. The first competition, held in 1998, featured only four teams. This year’s event drew 50 […]

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaZ1PMPsEGA&feature=share Every single day there are millions of small invisible acts which make our world better. These operations are usually hardly even noticed by the local media in each city, but they are crucial. These acts can be as small as someone providing a smile while passing a sad face on the sidewalk or young […]

  The social and economic implications of the quality education that children in the United States of America receive ,while not absolute, are critical in determining their future trajectories. The institution that children come into contact with the most in their prepubescent, formative years outside of their communities are schools. From both an operational and […]

Maltz Museum essay contest empowers students to take a stand against hatred The Plain Dealer, June 5, 2011 How to really improve K-12 public schools Ralph Scharnau, The Online, June 5, 2011 Fenger beating: 5 murder convictions later, all that’s left is sadness Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune, June 5, 2011 Young Men Pledge to End […]

Do you think of your momma or grandma as an “inarticulate black welfare mother with 19 children?” If not you might be surprised to learn that certain–largely white–gays  are paying big bucks to have one of their own dress up in drag and black-face as Shirley Q. Liquor, to be the MAMMY they never had […]

In this corner stands President Obama and in the opposite corner stands— the specter of —Osama Bin Laden.  These two men are the main event this week. A flashing headline: “Osama Bin Laden is dead and buried at sea.” The next moment, cameras are panning through crowds of people in the throes of celebrating this […]

Although I’d like to put Dead Prez on blast–like I planned on doing last week–I think it would be most appropriate to follow up last week’s post.  I can’t believe I’m about to force my fingers to type the following sentence, but here goes: I agree with the Obama Administration’s decision not to publish the […]

Rappers react to Osama Bin Laden’s death Allhiphop.com | May 1, 2011 A variety of rappers reacted to the breaking news that al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden has been killed. United States President Barack Obama hosted a press conference from the White House tonight (May 1st), revealing that Osama Bin Laden had been killed today […]