Voto Latino, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and Google is teaming up to present the $500,000 VL Innovators Challenge. The tech competition will provide 10-15 Millennial-led projects that improve the lives of Latinos in the U.S. with $10,000-$100,000.
Yesterday,Ā Ras Baraka claimed the mayoral seat of Newark, NJ. Baraka, a councilman and activist, beat law professor Shavar Jeffries for the seat left vacant by Cory Booker, who is now a senator in Washington.Ā Baraka won 54% of the vote.
Magic Johnson has responded to remarks made by Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling. In a bizarre interview with Anderson Cooper that aired Monday, Sterling questioned Johnson’s character, as well as his contributions to the African American community.Ā During an interview with CNN on Tuesday, Johnson made the following statement:
I was more than happy and moved to see that PBS was showing āLet the Fire Burnā a documentary about the Move Organization that ended in tragedy in Philadelphia of 1985. The Move Organization was founded by John Africa in 1972. They lived communally and vowed to lead a life uninterrupted by […]
The arrest of a 9-year-old girl in Portland last year has prompted a committee to review the case. The girl was handcuffed and taken to a police station without a parent or guardian after being questioned by police about a fight.Ā
Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling has gone from being known as just a racist white man, to a quite bizarre individual. In an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Monday, Sterling went off on Magic Johnson, and questioned his charitable contributions to society.Ā
Rashanah Baldwin is sick and tired of her neighborhood being negatively portrayed by media. True, Englewood isn’t home to the Cleavers, but there’s so much more to the Chicago community than violence, drugs and murder. So she and other residents are taking to social media to reshape the community’s image, one tweet at a time.Ā
The older I get, the more I start to question things. I’ve always been a firm believer that in life we’re supposed to be taught, but be wise enough, and willing enough to unlearn things that aren’t our own truths. So when I came across a very interesting article on NPR’s website, my spidey senses […]
Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling has issued an apology for racist remarks made during a recorded conversation with his former girlfriend V. Stiviano. On Sunday, Sterling apologized for the entire ordeal calling it a “terrible mistake.”
Members of a Washington D.C. volunteer task force returned to Kenilworth Park and Aquatic Gardens last last week in hopes of finding clues that will lead them to a missing 8-year-old girl. Relisha Rudd has been missing for more than two months.Ā
The following post was written by Frank Simpkins, author of “The Unfinished Business of the Civil Rights Movement: Failure of America’s Public Schools to Properly Educate its African American Student Populations. Simpkins is co-author of “Between Rhetoric and Reality.” By: Frank Simpkins An overriding theoretical, philosophical and political consideration of the cross-cultural approach to education […]
According to a YouTube video,Ā a member of the Boko Haram groupĀ who abducted 200 Nigerian girls last monthĀ has agreed to release the school girls in exchange for the release of prisoners.Ā The girls were kidnapped by members of Boko Haram while they were taking exams. The Nigerian government, as well as other governments including the […]
