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via CNN.com | March 1, 2010 Today, President Obama attended a press conference in which he introduced a plan to address and tackle the nation’s high school dropout crises.  The new mobilization campaign is called Grad Nation and more information can be found below. On March 1, 2010, General Colin Powell, America’s Promise Alliance Chair […]

Some of you are wondering what this word “prognosticator” means. Well, I’m glad you asked young grass hopper. Webster defines it as someone who predicts the future or as someone who speaks powerful insights. Perhaps, at one point Tavis Smiley and Al Sharpton spoke powerful insights on behalf of Black communities. Of course, this was […]

Concrete Jungle stuns, inspires and enthralls from beginning to end, and confirms without question that Nneka has the potential to be among the most vital and fascinating voices of pop music in the years to come. Believe the hype.

WhiteHouse.gov | February 26, 2010 President Obama signs an executive order to strengthen the capacity of and increase access to Federal funding for the Nation’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

ESPN.com Florida State football star and NFL prospect, Myron Rolle talks about what it means to be a Rhodes Scholar.  Read the ESPN story here.

via Youtube | February 22, 2010 The ladies of Zeta Tau Alpha from the University of Arkansas won the $100,000 1st place prize at last weekend’s Sprite Step Off-Challenge in Atlanta.  We have been hearing mixed responses about this result–mixed because ZTA is a white sorority that received the shine participating in a historically black […]

via Idolator.com | February 22, 2010 Having sold over half a million copies of her new album in its first week, Sade has been very busy promoting her album.  With this in mind, Wanda Sykes has tried everything she could to persuade Sade to come on her show.  And she gets pretty  close!

MSNBC.com | February 22, 2010 This week on the Today Show, former U.S. Army Spc. Shoshana Johnson spoke with Matt Lauer about her experience as a 19-year-old  prisoner of war in Iraq in 2003.  She recently wrote an autobiography about her experience called I’m Still Standing.

via CNN.com | February 19, 2010 In case you missed it, here’s all 14 minutes of Tiger’s televised remarks.

via LupeFiasco.com | February 17, 2010 One of Lupe Fiasco’s fans posted a unofficial video for his new single “I’m Beamin” and Lupe happened to see it and enjoyed it enough to post on his official website.  Hopefully this is inspiration for continuing to create and share your hobbies with the world.

During my transition in to high school, two years ago, I was lucky enough to have parents willing and able to sacrifice for my education. I had a choice between attending a smaller urban school that happens to be private and going to the large public high school in the suburb I’ve grown up in. At the […]

CBS News | February 12, 2010 An alternative all-boys high school on Cleveland’s hard luck Eastside is being turned around by a former security guard. In the three years since it opened, not one kid has flunked out. Jim Axelrod reports.