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D.C. Pastor Says MLK Jr. Would Champion LGBT Rights (and that black people should, too)
D.C. Pastor Says MLK Jr. Would Champion LGBT Rights Washington D.C. pastor Dr. Dennis W. Riley has made quite a few headlines this past week with an impassioned series of essays entitled “Gays R Us,” in which he argues for an inextricable link between the the LGBT and Black Civil Rights movements, and asserts emphatically […]
Christine O'Donnell Vs. Piers Morgan
In my 21 years of existence there have been many things that have perplexed me: Mike Tyson’s face tattoo, why Trix are for kids, and who framed Roger Rabbit. However, Christine O’Donnell’s interview on the Piers Morgan show may take the cake as one of the weirdest things I’ve seen. O’Donnell, already known as a […]
A Political Soundtrack
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFIh9hQZVr0 “Musicians Don’t’ Die, They Decompose.” The power of music is a secret to no one. You can find the manifestations of this power everywhere. Just observe the impulse you get when you hear a strong base in the background of a new track, or the tired feeling you get when listening to something slow […]
Inequality, Anger, Riots, and the Top 1 Percent
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdVODFombco&feature=youtube_gdata_player Aljazeera did a short documentary last week on their show titled Fault Lines. In this broadcast they discover that the top one percent of US Americans control 40 percent of the wealth. They posit that inequality is the worst it has been in almost a century and that the gap between the rich and […]
Homeless high school grad returns to Brooklyn to help kids like himself get to college
Homeless high school grad returns to Brooklyn to help kids like himself get to college BEN CHAPMAN, New York Daily News | July 25, 2011 Homeless high school grad Orayne Williams has returned to the city after his first year away at college – and he’s on a mission to help other street kids get an education. […]
Invisible Acts
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaZ1PMPsEGA&feature=share Every single day there are millions of small invisible acts which make our world better. These operations are usually hardly even noticed by the local media in each city, but they are crucial. These acts can be as small as someone providing a smile while passing a sad face on the sidewalk or young […]
The Struggle for Education, an Intellectual Fire, and a Sleep-In in front of Parliament
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70TiYDX1jGs On July 12th one hundred students gathered outside of parliament in Cape Town, South Africa to demand from their government an equal education. For the next few days the students are holding a “sleep-in” to ask for better infrastructure in their schools. These young people who are inspired by both the anti-apartheid movement and […]
Civil Rights, Gay Rights, and the Right to be Human
In the blogsphere there has been some uproar about comparing the civil rights movement of the 1950’s and 60’s to the Gay Rights Movement (which is moving forward with their victory in New York last week.) Apparently, many people find it “appalling” that this comparison is being made. Here are my thoughts: Just to say […]
Filling In Bubbles: Test Driven School Reform and Disengaging Working Class You
Filling In Bubbles: Test Driven School Reform and Disengaging Working Class Youth Mark Naison (via NewBlackMan) | June 29, 2011 If I was going to figure out a plan to get working class youth to disengage from school, here would be my major components. First, I would make students sit at their desks all day […]
Young Activists Use Art to Fight for the DREAM Act
Young Activists Use Art to Fight for the DREAM Act Stokely Baksh, Julianne Hing, Colorlines | July 1, 2011 The federal DREAM Act is back. This week Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, the longtime champion of the bill, chaired the first ever Senate hearing on the narrow legalization effort that would allow a select population of undocumented youth […]
Mrs. Obama to youth: History to be made in Africa
Mrs. Obama to youth: History to be made in Africa Darlene Superville, Associated Press | June 23, 2011 JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Michelle Obama on Wednesday told young African leaders, including members of South Africa’s post-apartheid generation, that there are more causes worth fighting for and more history to be made. She urged them to be […]
Rap Artist and Hip-Hop Pioneer found New Media Academy
Paradise “The Arkitech” Gray and Jasiri X On June 28, 2011, One Hood Media, established by Jasiri X and Paradise “The Arkitech” Gray, in conjunction with August Wilson Center for African American Culture and a generous donation provided by the Heinz Endowments, will begin the New Media Academy. New Media Academy is a tool to […]