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When the federal government announced massive cuts to the country’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), millions of Americans were affected. Now, an artist has recreated a daily variation of what you can get with the current food stamp ration entitled “Food Stamp Table.” The artistic piece is currently on display at Miami’s Art Basel, and […]

According to The U.S. Labor Department, new weekly claims for unemployment benefits jumped by 66,000 to 374,000 last week, the highest in six months. One-fourth of the new claims were due to private-sector workers filing for unemployment in result of the government shutdown.

Republican-controlled states are making cuts to their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). While the measure isn’t a result of the shutdown, it affects thousands of Americans.

Dr. Dre’s generous $35 million gift to USC made headlines across the country. But in a recent editorial, Dillard University president Walter M. Kimbrough posed an interesting question:Why didn’t Dr. Dre give that money to a black college?

According to a recent poll, the majority of Americans believe states should be allowed to decide whether to legalize marijuana. Do you support the legalization of recreational use of marijuana? Should individual states be able to make this decision?

Very few athletes, or any person in the public eye for that matter, handle themselves with the amount of humility and class that Derrick Rose does. And I for one am so glad that he can be someone who kids look up to. More kids will believe that they can make it. Because he did.

Recently, celebrity couple Jay-Z and Beyonce–who often traipse around awards ceremonies and other events as if they are the emperor and empress of a nation to which all young rappers and other wannabes are begging for citizenship–were criticized by civil rights leader and entertainer Harry Belafonte for their lack of political involvement. Beyonce’s camp. who […]

AMC, the cable network, originally began as a movie channel in the mid-1980s. Now, however, we most commonly laud AMC not for its airing of The Godfather trilogy  in chronological order during at least one holiday weekend per year, but rather its groundbreaking stable of television series that seem to garner the most Emmy nominations. Although it’s no […]

  As a Black male, my life prospects don’t look too bright- statistically speaking. My life span is 7.1 years shorter than any other cohort group; I’m 5 times more likely to die of HIV/AIDS. That’s just health related. When it comes to education there is a 40% chance that I will drop out of […]

Throughout the historical landscape of the United States a dream has been engrained in a pseudo-American identity. Some call this the American dream; others might refer to it as the American fallacy. Unfortunately, people who experience poverty in the United States very rarely have the opportunity to call this dream a reality. The trajectory of […]

BYP MORNING NEWSFLASH October 4th, 2011   BET founder Bob Johnson has taken a surprising position on President Obama’s Jobs Bill, as well as that whole “tax the wealthy,” “make the elite pay their fair share” thing. “’I think the president has to recalibrate his message,’ Johnson said. ‘You don’t get people to like you by […]

BYP MORNING NEWSFLASH September 30, 2011   When not inundating America with over-the-top, exploitative reality television, VH1 finds the time to do some amazing shit. Case in point: getting the original members of A Tribe Called Quest together for their first joint interview since 1998. The event commemorates the 20th anniversary of the release of […]