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Dateline NBC | August 12, 2010 This Sunday, August 15th at 7 p.m./6 Central, Lester Holt shares what happened when Dateline NBC traveled to Chicago to learn about it’s gang violence.

What’s the fascination with white people quitting work? If Steven Slater were a brotha he’d be splattered on the tarmac and posthumously charged with theft (for the two beers). He would have also been labeled lazy, crazy, and quite possibly a terrorist.

It is no secret that Black men are disproportionately uneducated, unemployed and incarcerated. Articles I’ve read in Noteworthy News and The Black Scholar toss out statistics that say that a six year old Black boy has a one in three chance of going to prison in his lifetime and the unemployment rate among young Black […]

Today Show | August 9, 2010

Since I only write here at BYP on Mondays, the blogging silence of the other six days often results in hateration build up.  Fortunately, I take notes.  What follows is a rather desultory dose of scathing haterade for your Monday morning.  Who needs caffeine? Feel my body! gettin’ cooooold. As a friend said on Facebook, […]

NBC Today Show | August 3, 2010 A group of six teenagers, ranging between 13 to 18, drown while trying to rescue a friend who stepped over a riverbed dropoff.

True Star Radio | August 3, 2010 Last week, hundreds of young people demonstrated in downtown Chicago, hoping to convince the state government to start funding a bill it passed for summer youth jobs.

Today Show | July 28, 2010 (Associated Press)  Condoleeza Rice and Aretha Franklin, two notable and powerful African-American women, joined forces last night for a great cause. In hopes of raising money for arts education for underprivileged youth, Franklin showcased her world-renowned vocals while Rice tickled the keys with the Philadelphia Orchestra. While their political […]

The other day, I was talking to my so-not-a-sports fan friend, rrrr about the LeBron James situation.  I mentioned how people took real issue with the slavery as analogy aspect of the whole debate.  I know I said something about the plantation model in my previous post about LBJ, but I wanted to return to […]

Fox News | July 20, 2010 PHILADELPHIA – A young Philadelphia girl is bullied at school. She decided that she would do something about it. She wrote a letter – to the President of the United States. 5th Grader Ziainey Stokes and her sister Naeema stopped by Fox 29 and spoke to Thomas Drayton. Ziainey […]

Last week, the folks over at Racialicious re-posted a piece by Macon D., the creator of the blog, Stuff White People Do.  The article, “Stuff White People Do: Warmly Embrace a Racist Novel,” addresses the 50th anniversary celebration of Harper Lee’s only novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, published in the summer of 1960.  Macon D. […]

We should all feel a little remorse for Mel Gibson. This is not in defense of his behavior nor am I excusing or condoning anything he did on the tape. I’m only suggesting we read between the lines and review just how the private lives of others become fodder for the masses. We have to […]