VMK, a company based in the People’s Republic of the Congo, has a set of smart phones and tablets that are more affordable and specifically designed for Africans.
SF teen Courtni Webb was suspended from school over a poem she wrote about the Sandy Hook shooting. In the poem, she expresses what her teacher interpreted as sympathy for shooter Adam Lanza. Should a student ever be suspended over a poem? Shouldn’t they have talked with her first?
Republican WI state senator Glenn Grothman is under fire after attacking the Kwanzaa holiday, asserting that “no black people care” about it. Of course, it’s actually observed by 2 million Americans. Should he apologize? Do you celebrate Kwanzaa?
Chicago has officially reached 500 homicides in 2012, after a fatal shooting on the city’s West Side yesterday. What can we do to make 2013 a safer, more peaceful year?
A new reality tv show will focus on the lives of Shawty Lo and his ten baby mommas.; with whom he has eleven kids. Is this a new low for reality tv? Will you watch?
dSpike Lee has refused to see Django Unchained, calling it disrespectful to his ancestors. Did you see the film? What did you think>
Condom dispensers have been placed in Philly schools with high rates of sexually transmitted infections. Is this a good idea?WIll it curb STD infenction rates amongst students?
Django is a film that’s been pivoted as an answer, when it raises more questions than anything. Should it be viewed within its historical significance, and the extent to which it can portray the horrors of slavery while reinvigorating a moment in history that many find irrelevant and antiquated? Or rather, should it be divorced […]
Appearing on his Smiley & West show with Tavis Smiley, Dr. Cornell West pulled no punches while discussing the current national conversation surrounding gun control. While he’s happy the discussion is happening at all, he laments the fact that it takes white people getting shot for the debate to be taken seriously.
In the wake of the horrific Sandy Hook shooting, President Obama has vowed to present Congress with policy proposals for reducing gun violence by January.
A Utah sixth-grader was arrested after bringing a gun to school to protect himself in the event of a school shooting. Witnesses say the boy either p0inted the gun at students on the playground, or threatened them with it verbally. Is this further proof that this country needs gun control?
President Barack Obama is once again Time Magazine’s Person of the Year, for ‘finding and forging a new majority, for turning weakness into opportunity and for seeking, amid great adversity, to create a more perfect union…’ Do you agree?
