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The L.A. Times is considering no longer using the term “illegal immigrant.” The Associated Press has already announced that they will no longer be using the term, acknowledging that it is a dehumanizing, unfair means to describe a human being.

Beyonce walked out to the podium at her Super Bowl press conference today and asked everyone to stand. As a bewildered crown of journalists rose to their feet, she proceeded to nail the national anthem a cappella for the stunned crowd. Fierce.

Two young black women use notecards to discuss parallel struggles with abuse and suicide; and how they found strength through friendship, faith and love.

Don’t miss Turnout The Vote, a rally and concert promoting voter participation and fighting voter suppression! The event goes down Friday, November 2nd, at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, IL (400 W. 95th Street). The festivities begin at 6pm. Click the above flier for more info! We’ll see you there!

Jasiri X and Van Jones at RebuildWI in Milwaukee (Photo by Paradise Gray) At Rebuild Wisconsin, One Hood Media (Jasiri X and Paradise Gray) spoke with Van Jones about why Rebuild the Dream got involved in the Recall of Governor Scott Walker, and what we need to do before and after the Presidential election. We […]

The campaign to suppress minority votes in the coming elections continues. The variety of new requirements for voting – which range from requring birth certificates and government-issued I.D to cutting early voting windows – disproportionately impact Black voters. We’ve got to get informed, and we must fight back!

Adele’s “Someone Like You” video is completely unoriginal and beyond formulaic. And I love it. So get out your tissues, and get ready to feel like shit. This is a celebration of the stark, intimate, sometimes black-and-white, heartbreaking, female songwriter-songwriter-driven music video. Enjoy…?

Afternoon Round-Up September 13, 2011 According to the US Census Bureau’s Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage report, the U.S. poverty rate hit 15.1% in 2010. This is an all-time high. All the bad stuff is on the rise apparently; 900,000 more Americans lacked health insurance in 2010 than in the previous year, poverty increased […]

So, I am discovering how utterly depressing Facebook can be. Yes, I did not stutter. Facebook, touted as the pen-ultimate medium for awkward wall flowers to gain social inclusion and social integration, is depressing. Not depressing in the most clinical sense of depressing, but more depressing in the vein of, “Damn, all my friends (I […]

Q&A: Wisconsin ID Law Will Suppress Youth, Minority Vote Jonah Most, New America Media | July 14, 2011 Editor’s Note: On May 25, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker signed off on a new law, Assembly Bill 7, that requires Wisconsin voters to show photo identification at the polls. Critics of the law contend that this requirement […]

If last week’s rather desultory and occasionally poorly rendered post on The Fab Five was any indication, my love for Jalen Rose and the rest of the Fab Five is immense and endures even today.  I appreciate many of the things they symbolized.  Just like back in ’91, many do not hold this cohort of […]

The Launch Of The Hip-Hop Express And It’s Importance To Education [Podcast] Bakari Kitwana, News One | December 15, 2010 Click here to listen to podcast In this week’s edition of Rap Sessions, NewsOne contributor Bakari Kitwana speaks with Dr. William Patterson about a new hip-hop and civic studies project modeled after the early 1900s […]