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Commercial Break: Athlete Slash Musician
It seems I’ve been more polemical than usual these last few weeks. So how about something completely worthless and asinine–ok, more worthless and asinine than what I usually post here–this Monday? Because, frankly, all I have to say about The Help‘s (and The Smurfs’) continued box office success this weekend is: Effing really‽‽ (God bless the interrobang.) Anyway, in case […]
Weekly News Round-Up: Aug 1st – August 7th, 2011
Aug 1st – 7th White supremacist principal running Bronx school with majority black and Latino students Corinne Lestch, Daily News Writer, 8/1/11 The Racist Scourge Roger Cohen, The New York Times , 8/1/11 Choosing Between an HBCU And a PWI Ja’el Gordon, Huffington Post, 8/3/11 Strategic Plan for CHS Aims to […]
70 Percent of Anti-LGBT Murder Victims Are People of Color
70 Percent of Anti-LGBT Murder Victims Are People of Color MIchael Lavers, Colorlines, July 18, 2011 It’s an all too common, if shocking story: A transgender Latina woman with HIV is attacked on a street close to her home in a low-income neighborhood in the Bay Area. Making a bad situation worse, police officers literally drag […]
Ladies First (and Only)?
It wasn’t until I sat down to write this that I realized I’d have to confess to watching Single Ladies–more than once. It’s true. Admittedly, I watched the first episode because I think Dionne Stacey Dash is fine. And although I find the acting in some ways utterly intolerable, somehow I’ve seen enough episodes since to still be able […]
Black Colleges Key to Reviving U.S. Education
Black Colleges Key to Reviving U.S. Education Stan Washington, Atlanta Voice (via New America Media ) | July 12, 2011 ATLANTA – If the United States is going to regain its global leadership position in higher education, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) will need to play a major role, says a White House official on […]
Does living in a diverse community make you safer?
Does living in a diverse community make you safer? Monique Morris, The Grio | July 7, 2011 Residential integration has long been associated with an improved quality of life for people of color in America. Civil and human rights leaders for over a century have elevated the importance of diversity and inclusion in housing as […]
Report: Educational Inequities Still Hold Black Students Back
Report: Educational Inequities Still Hold Black Students Back Frank McCoy, BET News | July 1, 2011 The U.S. Department of Education released part one of its 2009-10 Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) Thursday, and it is a comprehensive, and downbeat, look at the education of 75 percent of American students in more than 7,000 districts. The […]
Bay Area transit agency agrees to pay $1.3 million to mother of man fatally shot by officer
Bay Area transit agency agrees to pay $1.3 million to mother of man fatally shot by officer Associated Press | June 28, 2011 OAKLAND, Calif. — A San Francisco Bay area transit agency Tuesday agreed to pay $1.3 million to the mother of a 22-year-old unarmed black man who was fatally shot by a white […]
Study: Minority Youth Have Big Media Appetite
Study: Minority Youth Have Big Media Appetite Associated Press (via NPR) | June 8, 2011 Minority youth spend more than half their day consuming media content, a rate that’s 4.5 hours greater than their white counterparts, according to a Northwestern University report released Wednesday. Television remains king among all youth, but among minorities who spend […]
Feeling inspired but not getting hired
Feeling inspired but not getting hired Eli Saslow, Washington Post | May 27, 2011 IN MEMPHIS — His week had begun with a graduation ceremony, a standing ovation and a walk across the stage to meet the president of the United States. Kenneth Roberson was a top-ranked student at the high school President Obama had selected […]
May 9, 2011 – May 15, 2011
Some students dive into politics Prega Govender, Times Live, May 15, 2011 Forum inspires black youth Don Lajoie, The Windsor Star, May 14, 2011 Black youth have less trouble if mentored Staff Writer, UPI, May 14, 2011 Spelman hosts historic summit on black LGBT students Anare V. Holmes, GA Voice, May 13, 2011 Racial quotas […]
Black Teens Are Fired When the Minimum Wage Rises
Black Teens Are Fired When the Minimum Wage Rises Frank McCoy, BET | May 12, 2011 It is no surprise that Black teens, 16- to 19-years old, are disproportionately unemployed. At the Great Recession’s bottom, African-American teens had an unemployment rate of nearly 50 percent while the rate for all teens was 27.1 percent. In the […]