What do you want to see happen in Obama’s second term? A concerted effort to lower unemployment among blacks and youth? Same-sex marriage? Better foreign policy? Sound off below!!!!
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 […]
“In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. To my jaded contemporaries who think they aren’t voting today. Let me apologize to you on behalf of this country. I’m sorry that this country has so disenfranchised you that you’ve […]
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.
According to MSNBC, a voting machine has been taken out of service after being captured on video changing a vote for President Obama into one for Mitt Romney. What does this look like to you? Is this a coincidence? An accident? Or something else?
With election day comes the usual fair and balanced reporting of Fox News.Their current top story: New Black Panthers engaging in alleged voter intimidation at Philadelphia polling places. Again.
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?
This is it, folks. Election day is finally (read: mercifully) upon us. Please get out to the polls today and make your voice heard.
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 […]
This was originally part of a larger song I wrote about race in this presidential election. Ultimately I decided not to drop it, but I felt this verse truly captured the reality of how race and privilege play a huge part in this country’s perception of who or what is American. Recently the Washington Post ran a article that concluded this years election is, “shaping up […]
