Hillsdale College President Larry Arnn is under fire after referring to minority students as “dark ones” during a subcommittee hearing: “The letter, he told the committee, said his college ‘violated the standards for diversity because we didn’t have enough dark ones, I guess, is what they meant.’
At just 14-years old, Great Lakes, Illinois native Thessalonika Arzu-Embry is set to graduate from college. She’ll receive a Bachelor’s Degree in psychology from Chicago State University.
The Obama administration has a policy of force-feeding Guantanamo Bay detainees at night, and plan to continue to do so in spite of the month-long fast. Many Muslim leaders are calling on the administration to reconsider its tactics. Rapper and actor Yasiin Bey (formerly Mos Def) volunteered to appear in a short film made to shed light on the force-feeding process by undergoing that process himself.
Yesterday a mistrial was declared in the trial of Joseph Weekley, who is accused of fatally shooting 7-year-old Aiyana Stanley-Jones during a police raid that was being filmed for a reality show.
Dave Chappelle is slated to headline a massive comedy tour sponsored by Funny or Die. The trek kicks off August 26th in Austin, TX.
We talked a lot about the criminal justice system and prison industrial complex, especially as it pertains to black youth. The astronomical number of people who have been incarcerated and the effects their imprisonment has on those individuals, their families, and the communities they leave and sometimes return to is part of that discussion. […]
This past January, while on a Fulbright Fellowship in Business Management in India, I took my only break and went to Israel. For 10 days, I embarked on the adventure of a lifetime. I participated in a new Israel program called Bizrael – a trip to Israel for business students and young professionals to […]
Living in a big city on a small internship budget can cause serious financial strain. But a little planning can help cut costs in a few places. Here are some of my plans…
Openly gay mayoral candidate Marco McMillian was found dead near a Mississippi River levee. McMillian was the first openly gay person to be a viable candidate for public office in the state. His death is being investigated as a homicide.
Megan Piphus, an upperclassman at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, recently appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. She’s using music, ventriloquism, and puppetry, to inspire youth to dream big and in color!
Black Christmas? There’s an app for that. A company called Around The Way, which is the fruit of a partnership between two companies located in New York and Washington, D.C., has created a mobile phone app that will help consumers find black-owned establishments.
According to a recent NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, President Obama is leading his rival Mitt Romney in multiple swing states. Obama is up 5 points in Florida and Virginia, and a whopping 7 points in Ohio. From the Huffington Post: “Obama won all three states over Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) in 2008, but Florida especially […]
