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During an interview with Rolling Stone long-time singer-songwriter Elton John revealed his desire to make hip hop music. 

  Students in America’s schools will face a redesigned standardized test in the coming months. Curators of the Spring 2016 SAT test books say they are more focused and useful than ever. The changes could boost the success rate of black students. Major changes are described below. 

  A group of black firefighters that sued New York City for discrimination has been awarded millions for the incidents. The ruling means that minority fire department applicants will be eligible to receive back pay totaling $98 million. 

A missing Malaysia Airlines flight may have been diverted from its original path via computer.  Flight 370 has been missing since March 8. 

An openly gay New York-based rapper made his network TV debut on Letterman last week. Le1f, who made a name for himself by calling out Macklemore, performed his upbeat single “Wut.”  Gawker highlights the significance of the move. 

A bipartisan group of U.S. senators has reached a deal to extend federal benefits to the chronically unemployed for an additional five months. One negotiator referred to the conclusion as a “bipartisan breakthrough.” 

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder endorsed a proposal that would result in shorter prison sentences for many nonviolent drug offenses. Holder says the change would rein in runaway federal prison cost and create a fairer criminal justice system. 

The following post was written by researchers at Instant Checkmate, a public records search service.  By: Instant Checkmate Many people don’t realize that juvenile court and criminal court are actually two separate judicial systems that operate differently, and for different reasons. Of course there are general similarities, but this is due to various overarching elements of the […]

  2015 will shape up to be a big year for Chicago. The Chicago mayor’s seat is up for grabs, and a challenger may have a chance to snatch it right from under current Mayor Rahm Emanuel. While The Chicago Reader speculated over who could challenge the mayor, they left out one name. Maybe because […]

Toward the end of last month, flyers featuring the hashtag #dbkgu started to appear on the campus of Georgetown University. The group responsible for the flyers revealed the meaning of the hashtag. “Dangerous Black Kids of Georgetown University” is the latest social advocacy group seeking to call attention to race relations on college campuses. 

With an Oscar win under her belt, Lupita Nyong’o will only rise to to top. She’s being hailed for her critically-acclaimed role in 12 Years a Slave, her remarkable beauty and style and her down-to-earth charm. But is the media fetishizing Lupita Nyong’o? One blogger thinks so. In her ope-ed piece published on The Motley Crew’s Cherish refers to […]

“Conversations We Are Not Having” is a Black Youth Project series focused on how our economy does and does not work for Black People. We hope to create a space that demystifies this “dismal science” we call economics. We want to engage in a creative and impactful dialogue about the economic futures of black people. To that end we […]