Today Show | March 23, 2011 Anaih Rucker, 9, talks about her courageous, split-second decision to push her 5-year-old sister, Camry, out of the way of an oncoming truck, which left her with an amputated leg.
News One | March 10, 2011 Watoto from the Nile, the girl group from Baltimore that created much buzz on the web with their music video questioning Lil Wayne’s lyrics about women, talk for the first time about their controversial song.
CNN | March 8, 2011 Students and parents at St. Augustine High School, a New Orleans boys Catholic school, are organizing to keep their school’s paddling policy in place.
No matter how much sex there can be or how generous your pay checks come, you still have not experienced real amazement until you’ve been to a Chicago-style poetry slam. For four years, the end of February and beginning of March has marked the season in which I unleashed my craft. As a freshman in […]
WBNS 10 News (via The Root) | March 5, 2011 Nikko Burton, a 10-year-old student at Chapelfield Elementary in Ohio, says he was humiliated by his teacher when she tried to demonstrate what it was like to be a slave on an auction block. Burton, one of two black students in his class, was chosen […]
CNN | March 3, 2011 (From Colorlines)  What has changed in the last twenty years is people’s access to cameras in order to film everyday interactions with police. The medium has become a crucial tool for demanding accountability for violent acts of unwarranted brutality. Rates of police brutality may not be going up, but there’s […]
MSNBC | March 2, 2011 Colby Bohannan of the Former Majority Association for Equality and Marc Lamont Hill of Columbia University talk about a new college scholarship offered exclusively for white, male students.
Premieres February 25, 2011 | Purchase tickets here “Woke Up Black”, focuses on five black youth, along with their struggles and triumphs as they start their journey into adulthood. The documentary will premier on February 25, 2011 at the Gene Siskel Film Center and will be broadcast on WTTW, Chicago’s public television station, in late Spring. The film […]
Boston Club Apologizes for Discriminating Against Black Harvard Students Associated Press | February 25, 2011 BOSTON — The owners of a Boston nightclub issued a public apology and agreed Friday to pay a $30,000 fine to settle allegations that it abruptly shut down an event after the annual Harvard-Yale football game because most of the […]
CNN | February 16, 2011 Education Secretary Arne Duncan is on a mission to recruit more diverse educators.
This is for the mother in Langa that walked three blocks to boil water over an open fire, not in her house, but near her house to cook for her children. This is for the child on the south side of Chicago that takes a bus and two trains twice a day to get an […]
Take a look at your G-Shock—yup it’s about that time. I don’t know if it’s because it’s my first year in college or what, but Valentine’s Day is a pretty big deal to me. No it’s not a sucker’s holiday, and no it should not substitute yearly or monthly efforts at relationships. You have to […]
