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September 9, 2011 Last night, President Obama unveiled a $450 million dollar jobs plan during a special joint session of Congress. His plan would include slashing the Social Security payroll tax and infrastructure projects, and would be paid for in part by cutting Social Security and Medicare, as well as raising taxes on the wealthiest […]

September 1, 2011 Maaaan…Rush Limbaugh is gonna be pissed! According to Sabrina Tavernise of the New York Times, Minorities are far outpacing whites in terms of population growth in America’s biggest cities. She writes: Hispanics and Asians led population growth in the country’s 100 largest metropolitan areas over the past decade, growing by 41 percent […]

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 […]

By Justin Hill In 2008, when I first read “Gay is the New Black” on the cover of the Advocate, I CRINGED at its implications.  Even as I write, “Gay is the New Black,” it is unsettling because it elides, obfuscates and erases many tensions and concerns. You may be asking, “Why speak about it […]

Only One In Four Young Black Men In New York Have A Job: Study Huffington Post, December 14, 2010 A new study paints a bleak portrait of the unemployment landscape faced by young black men in New York City. The headline of the report, filed by theCommunity Service Society of New York reads, “Only One in […]

And all of this makes Scott-Heron’s new album, I’m New Here, all the more stunning; not since the Rick Rubin-assisted resurrection of Johnny Cash’s legendary (and, by the earlier 90’s, similarly derailed) career has an older, seemingly past-their-prime artist returned with something so haunting, so vital, and so unequivocably brilliant.

As a Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action looms, a New York Times analysis shows that progress has stalled for African Americans in elite careers.

A recent article featured in the New York Times shines a spotlight on the impact of the NYPD’s “Stop and Frisk” policy on black women; confusion, humiliation, and sexual intimidation.

The New York Times ran a fascinating article on NYC’s flagship specialized public school Stuyvesant High School, and its dwindling number Black and Latino students. 3,295 students go to Stuyvesant; yet only 40 of them are Black. Should more be done to attract Black and Latino students to schools like Stuyvesant?

According to a recent New York Times article, Free Lunch Programs are swelling with new participants nationwide, indicating rising levels of poverty and economic distress across the country. Read more at BlackYouthProject.com!

From Rick Ross’ massive hit “BMF (Blowin’ Money Fast)” to Wacka Flocka Flame’s “Hard In Da Paint,” Luger is unquestionably one of the hottest producers in the game right now. New York Times has a great piece on Luger, his rapid rise to fame, and the way the internet has expanded opportunities for young people to have their voices heard.

This essay discusses queerphobic violence by Nelson C.J On the surface, taking screenshots on Grindr can serve a few trivial purposes. To capture that absolutely weird or witty bio on an interesting profile, to keep evidence of a chat you and your friends might laugh over when you show them, or to save the picture […]