So this past week we all voted and made the decision to re-elect Barack Obama. (Woot-Woot!) However, now that he is re-elected I am lead to think about two things. The first: how will those of us who care about the issues of the poor put pressure on the president to make it a priority […]
The President becomes emotional – even shedding a few tears- as he heaps praise and gratitude on his team. He explains, “it’s not that you remind me of myself, it’s that you’re so much better.”
California voters approved a ballot measure that would amend the state’s highly controversial Three Strikes law, requiring that the third offense be of a serious and/or violent nature.
Yesterday, we told you about students at the University of Mississippi who decided to burned Obama/Biden signs and spewing racial epithets in response to Obama’s reelection. Well, yesterday an even larger group of Ole Miss students got together for a unity march. Amazing.
In the wake of President Obama’s big win this week, the racists and ignoramuses came out in full force. Jezebel took the liberty of rounding up a few of the most outrageous and pathetic highlights. Will our nation ever get beyond racism and bigotry?
When I DJ I catch the unholy ghost. An electric shock flows through my arms; and when the record hits my finger tips, the funkadelic movement shimmy towards my wrist. Blended music surrounds my ear drums as I begin birthing new born tracks with the umbilical cord still attached. A slight cut from the mixer […]
With all the election day hooplah, many of us might lose sight of our long term struggle and obligation to the community. What happens on November 7th? ACTION, that’s what.
At a campaign rally in Ohio yesterday, Jay-Z brought the house down with a slight revision to one of his classics: ‘If you havin’ world problems, I feel bad for you, son/ I got 99 problems but Mitt ain’t one.” Too far? Or juuuuuust right?
A slew of polls released on Sunday suggest an Obama victory tomorrow night. The numbers have the incumbent up in key battleground states, as well as nationally. What do you think? Does Obama have this one in the bag? WIll you be voting tomorrow?
Every week, the Black Youth Project collects the top news stories about black youth from across the country. Check back every Monday for a new roundup of headlines about young black America.
Just like last month, when The White House was congratulating itself a lower employment rate, not much has been said about the fact that unemployment for blacks and youth remain high. In fact, it actually rose:
For weeks I’ve gone back and forth about whether or not to say what I’m about to. There are several reasons for this. First, I didn’t want to be repetitive, and what I’m going to say is in some ways an updated version of a couple of blogs I wrote on my old personal site […]
