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A few days ago, after a long days work, I got on the train, grabbed a seat, plugged in my headphones and tried not to think about the long ride home.  I am not generally afraid of being on the train at any point in the day.  Growing up taking the train in Chicago prepared […]

First, let me apologize. I am feeling brain drain in a major way. My team (the one that I work for) lost in Game 6 of the Finals. It was a long season and a long playoff run (that ended with a 90+ hour work week). I can’t think about anything except this season and […]

  A few days ago I aired my frustration towards Florida Governor Rick Scott on Facebook. My status stated: “Requiring welfare recipients to undergo drug testing is yet another method being used by the GOP to increase social surveillance in low-income communities. This is nothing but a ploy by Governor Rick Scott to add more […]

Yes, Johannes Mehserle, who executed Oscar Grant, in cold blood and on video, was granted an early release. Mehserle served only 11 months of his 2 year sentence. This excellent article from Mother Jones puts Mehserle’s Sentence in Perspective showing how he did less time than Wesley Snipes is doing for “income tax fraud” and […]

Minority students feel welcome at Lone Peak Mandy Hunt, Herald Daily, June 12, 2011 Black ‘Abandoned’ Face Life of Poverty Al Calloway, SFL Times, June 12, 2011 Dropout rates still a concern Emily Sweeney, Boston Globe, June 12, 2011 Milwaukee artists team up with The Black Student Union at MATC to give back to local […]

Vick surprises 2 grads with $5,000 scholarships Kathy Matheson, Associated Press (via The Grio) | June 13, 2011 PHILADELPHIA (AP) – In the minutes before giving his first commencement speech, Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick professed to be more nervous than before a football game. He had nothing to worry about. A lovingly raucous crowd of […]

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WJFjXtHcy4&feature=player_embedded *sigh* Well, there’s one (or more) for every generation. I think Kreayshawn (nee Natassia Zolot) is a fraud.  I don’t believe she’s serious; I don’t believe she’s real.  Some good discussion about Kreayshawn and appropriation is happening, but I’m still at the start line refusing to believe her alleged biography about being the child […]

I am watching the most beautiful “mile” in the world turn into a war zone where black bodies embody the spirit of the enemy. For those that don’t know, Chicago’s downtown area has been taken over by groups of violent teenagers looking to steal Ipads, for which the Chicago Police Department (CPD) has formally named […]

Beyonce she makes this shit look easy on 4; these are soulful, rollicking, and relentlessly charismatic performances that could only be turned in by an artist that is 100% confident and comfortable in her own skin. 4 is what happens when a great artist has nothing left to prove. And it is a stunning album.

CBS News | June 7, 2011 Rapper, producer Lupe Fiasco is not shy about offering his political views. “My fight against terrorism, to me, the biggest terrorist is Obama in the United States of America,” the rapper stated on “What’s Trending.”  (Read more)

Rangers, Astros draft paralyzed baseball players Dennis Waszak, Associated Press (via The Grio) | June 9, 2011 NEW YORK (AP) — Johnathan Taylor and Buddy Lamothe may never play baseball again after accidents left them partially paralyzed. That didn’t matter to the teams that picked them Wednesday during the final rounds of the Major League Baseball […]

MSNBC | June 7, 2011 Asenath Andrews, principal of the Catherine Ferguson Academy in Detroit, talks with Rachel Maddow about the city’s plan to close a school for students who are pregnant or with a small child.