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Yesterday my friend who attends UC Berkeley  told me that, “ish got real”. No, she wasn’t complaining about midterm exams or too much homework. She was referring to a bake sale. This isn’t your grandmother’s bake sale, well unless your grandmother set the prices of her cookies, brownies, cupcakes based on race, gender, and ethnicity. […]

BYP MORNING NEWSFLASH September 26, 2011   President Obama spoke passionately at the Congressional Black Caucus awards dinner this past Saturday, and he had a few choice words for the leaders of his most important voting bloc. According to BlackVoices: “’Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,’ he said, his voice rising […]

Last week I made the decision not to mention Troy Davis in my blog. This week, however, I feel the need to make a desultory remark or two. So random are my words that I am thinking about the law and morality. A bad move, I know. But I can’t help it: Despite my overall […]

Sept 19- 25th   University of Tennessee Martin’s First Black Student Remembers Challenges Staff Writer, The associated Press, 9/19/11   Berkeley, California Schools Number One In Black Student Success Staff Writer, News One, 9/20/11   Achievement gap progressively narrows Sara Toth, Baltimore Sun, 9/20/11   Retention of black students at K-State remains problem Cooper Mach, […]

Seven months ago you couldn’t tell me that Odd Future would achieve mainstream representation; I guessed that they were a group of outlaws that would manage their own channels. And here my predictions have been assassinated: while Earl is under a boarding school in Samoa, Tyler has won MTV’s Best New Artist and Frank Ocean […]

The League of Young Voters Needs Your Help! We’ve already told you about the GOP’s War On Voting. Case in point: SB 14, the Texas Voter ID Bill. The bill will disenfranchise student voters by disallowing the use of school IDs and “making it impossible  for out-of-state students to register in time for the 2012 primary […]

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVEDpC_6iIE When I was nine years old my stepmother told me blatantly: “don’t you bring no white women home to my house.” The statement, which was racially charged with 4 ounces of abhorrence, 2 cups of historical baggage, and a whole recipe of nuances that could rationalize or reprehend statements similar to my stepmothers. Regardless […]

This month marks my 2year anniversary as a blogger for the Black Youth Project. When Dr. Cathy Cohen suggested that I share my thoughts with the world on this digital platform I was a little apprehensive to say the least.  I wasn’t quite sure if anyone would care to read, nor was I sure if […]

Despite almost a million signatures being collected on petitions to halt the execution of Troy Davis, it’s still scheduled to take place on September 21. We made the above video to encourage as many people as we could to get involved. If you need anymore convincing, please read Brenton Mock’s excellent article on Loop 21 […]

BYP Morning NewsFlash September 19, 2011 Everyone is still talking about that insanely bizarre Mayweather-Ortiz fight. AllHipHop.com thinks you need to stop hatin’ on Mayweather and recognize his talent as a boxer. I’ll let you make that call. But they do have a point; regardless of what everyone might think, Mayweather did nothing illegal. And […]

Not that I pay that much attention to hip-hop anymore, but rapper, [The] Game (when did he drop the article?) spoke out recently about gays and hip-hop, and I noticed. And by “notice” I mean someone mentioned it to me and I bothered to Google it. Call it preparation for LGBTQ History Month. In case […]

Sept 12th-18th   Study finds more Latinos enrolling at colleges Brandon Hensley, Daily Sudial, 8/11/11   Historically Black Colleges and Universities Rankings Robert Morse, US News, 9/12/11   The Lion King’s Robert Guillaume Offers Sage Advice to Black Youth Staff Writer, Rolling Out, 9/12/11   Nearly half of African-American youth report pressure to have sex […]