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According to The National Home Education Research Institute, more African American parents are choosing to homeschool their children. Is this the antidote to the public school crisis? Can homeschooling positively impact black youth?

Four Philadelphia police officers are at the center of controversy and outrage after a cell phone video surfaced showing them brutally beating 18 year-old Marcus Warryton. Check out the disturbing, infuriating footage after the jump.

As a Black male that grew up in the inner city of Cleveland Ohio, I understand what it means academically and personally, to be in a failing school system. My high school was a place where I found myself wrenched inside an atmosphere where I only had a 40 percent chance of graduating and an […]

Del.school that taught black students faces sale Staff Writer, Canadian Business, 12/25/11   Kwanzaa begins Monday with celebration at Youngstown church Staff Writer, Vindy Times, 12/25/11   Top 10 Historically Black College and University (HBCU) Successes of 2011 Marybeth Gasman, Huffington Post   Kwanzaa Begins With An Appeal To Youth Paul Tuthill, Northeast Public Radio, […]

Dubbing themselves The Resistance, a group of Bronx students have decided to “Occupy” public education, releasing a 10-POINT PLAN for reforming New York City’s public school system. Check out their full list of reforms at BlackYouthProject.com!

College board: Minorities lag in AP test performance Tara Malone, Chicago Tribune | February 9, 2011 Whether enrolled in statistics or Spanish, a record number of Illinois high school seniors took college-level courses last year, but the percentage who passed the grueling end-of-term exams remained divided along racial lines, according to a report released Wednesday. […]

The McEducation of the Negro Natalie, Hopkinson, The Root, January 3, 2010 Something wasn’t right at the high school that Darwin Bridgers’ son attends, so he sat in on the class to see for himself. All morning long, the instructor at the Washington, D.C., charter school pointed to a list of ground rules, a detailed […]

For the past couple days the internet has been all keyed up over the DEA’s search for translators to help them decode the intricate and complex language of the drug game. In short, the DEA is looking for, as they call it, Ebonics experts. Wait what? Are we acknowledging the fact that Ebonics is a […]

We make people fill out applications for everything under the sun. School. Jobs. Apartments. Cars. Credit cards. Society places such high value on this imaginary money that we pass around that you can actually be denied credit cards or bank accounts if you have been proven to be irresponsible with it. If you are not […]

Since we live in an age where technology is everything and everywhere, most of us have some type of outlet on the internet and while for most of us, it doesn’t serve to satisfy any emotional problems or insecurities, there are many young, vulnerable, and insecure people who feel that there is nowhere else to turn. […]

I guess I have to start protesting Arizona, née Mexico, which sucks because I’m totally not into marching, making colorful signs, or shouting rhymes in unison with a bunch of people.  I suppose, then, that I have to resort to other means of expressing my disapproval.  At first I thought I’d boycott  U.S. Airways, an […]

Dear John Mayer, Dude, wtf?  I was in New Mexico off grid for a few days; I get back home to the Chi, and every straight black girl with a blog now hates you.  I had a message in my Facebook inbox with a link to your Playboy interview, so I figured it out.  Note […]