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Weekly News Round-Up: Dec. 26 – Jan. 1
Del.school that taught black students faces sale Staff Writer, Canadian Business, 12/25/11 Kwanzaa begins Monday with celebration at Youngstown church Staff Writer, Vindy Times, 12/25/11 Top 10 Historically Black College and University (HBCU) Successes of 2011 Marybeth Gasman, Huffington Post Kwanzaa Begins With An Appeal To Youth Paul Tuthill, Northeast Public Radio, […]
Weekly News Round-Up: Nov. 21-27
Are Black Students Lacking Basic Skills? Staff Writer, News One, 11/21/11 Alcohol puts students at risk on ‘Black Wednesday’ Staff Writer, Indy Star, 11/21/11 Black College Students: Financial Aid Money, How To Spend It… Staff Writer, Thy Black Man News, 11/21/11 Young Black Voters: Study Dispels Myths Jenée Desmond-Harris , The Root, […]
Weekly News Round-Up: Nov 14-20
San Francisco’s Homeless Black Youth Invisible Peter Schurmann, New American Media, 11/14/11 African-American Boys Master the Game of Chess Naeesa Aziz, Bet News, 11/14/11 Meeting to end gang violence Jill Drury, WDTn News, 11/15/11 Guiding Local Youth Away from a Life of Crime Jennifer Van Der Kleut, Milpitas Patch, 11/16/11 School […]
Weekly News Round-Up: Nov. 7-13
Summit encourages Black men Karen Bushanam, WCF Courier, 11/7/11 All Black Art Illustrates Young Authors Book Staff Writer, Voxy News, 11/7/11 High School Students Reminded to Make Healthy Choices Alison DeMaria, Sayville Patch, 11/8/11 Student learning gap: a lack of experience, diversity David Carroll, WRCB News, 11/8/11 Gender Based Violence (GBV) […]
NEWSFLASH: Conrad Murray Found GUILTY
Dr. Conrad Murray has been found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the death of Michael Jackson.
Weekly News Round-Up: Oct. 31-Nov. 6
African American Panel Talks Jobs Kim Lamb Gregory, VC Star, 11/5/11 MacArthur Youth Focus on Mental Health Vera Bertola, MacArthur Chronicle, 11/6/11 Supporting Foster Youth Betty Freehyk, SKY News, 11/4/11 Local leaders getting behind literacy programs Francisco Vara-Orta, My San Antonio, 11/6/11 Black and Asian Teens Have Lowest Rates of Drug […]
Weekly News Round-Up Oct 24-30
A Global Youth Rebellion Staff Writer, Workers World News, 10/23/11 NAACP speaker: We must address achievement gap Kevin Barlow, Pantagraph News, 10/24/11 Inner city youth leader to speak Mark Guydish, The Times Leader, 10/24/11 Obama courts young voters Nia-Malika Henderson, Washington Post, 10/26/11 Coalition of African American Leaders Takes Aim at […]
BYP NEWSFLASH: Oprah is Highest Paid in Showbiz (AGAIN), Derrick Bell Passes Away, and RiRi Sets Another Record
BYP NEWSFLASH October 6th, 2011 Forbes unleashed their list of the highest-earning women in Showbiz, and – surprise, surprise – Oprah Winfrey topped the list, making a staggering $290 million from May 2010-May 2011. This is actually kind of surprising though, since The Big O’s new television network OWN has been doing less-than-stellar since […]
BYP NEWSFLASH: Winehouse's "Me & Mr. Jones" About NAS, Adele Cancels Tour, J. Cole is #1 and MORE!
BYP MORNING NEWSLASH MUSIC EDITION October 05, 2011 In an interview with XXLmag.com, Nas confirms that the late-great Amy Winehouse’s classic “Me and Mr. Jones” was about him. “’I don’t really remember if Salaam, who was really close to her, who introduced us, if he told me about it or not,’ Nas told XXL. […]
BYP NEWSFLASH: BET Founder Bob Johnson Thinks Obama is "Attacking" His Success, New Book Says Diddy Killed 2pac, and MORE!
BYP MORNING NEWSFLASH October 4th, 2011 BET founder Bob Johnson has taken a surprising position on President Obama’s Jobs Bill, as well as that whole “tax the wealthy,” “make the elite pay their fair share” thing. “’I think the president has to recalibrate his message,’ Johnson said. ‘You don’t get people to like you by […]
BYP NEWSFLASH: Perry Owns A Ranch Called "NIGGERHEAD," Obama Lookalike in KFC Commerical, Drake's New Video and MORE!
BYP MORNING NEWSFLASH October 3rd, 2011 This current crop of GOP Presidential contenders truly are the gift that keeps on giving. On top of everything else that is utterly ridiculous and absurd about Texas Governor Rick Perry, news broke over the weekend that the Perry family’s West Texas hunting camp once went by the […]
Weekly News Round-Up: Sept 26th- Oct 2nd, 2011
Sept 26th- Oct 2nd The Black Gay Gang At Gallery Place Shani Hilton, Washington City Paper, 9/28/11 Reconcile our children’s future Jonathan Jansen, Times Live, 9/29/11 The color of an unequal recession Susan Williams, Freedom Socialist, 10/1/11 Save Our Students launches campaign to break youth violence Tracey McManus, The Augusta Chronicle, […]