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As one Chicago educator’s open letter explains,the CTU Strike stands as a lesson to Rahm Emanuel and anyone that uses and abuses workers: You can try; but be prepared for a fight.

Chicago police were forced to abruptly end rapper Lil JoJo’s wake when mourners nearly knocked over his casket. The violence and police presence at his wake are indicators of deeper issues at play. How do we get to the root?

Peace is being able to have food everyday that settles aching stomachs. Peace is having access to healthcare. Peace is making sure income inequality levels is not as drastic as the lack of sanitation facilities available in Khayelitsha, Guguletu, Nyanga, and many other townships that still struggle for basic services that impact the quality of […]

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv658wfVt6I The generation’s identity reveals itself in the sound waves that stimulate the collective conscious. Speech, which is the vocal reality of knowledge, enters the minds of youth through Hip-Hop among other things. We’re not only listening though. Young MCs speak, talk about the experiences of the black future in 2012. Our generation’s sound waves […]

Every week, the Black Youth Project collects the top news stories about black youth from across the country. Click here to check out our archive of weekly news round-ups, and check back every Monday for a new roundup of headlines about young black America. Debate continues on holding students back Maureen Downey, Atlanta Journal Constitution, […]

Music is an instrument for movements. It is an apparatus strategically utilized by those who fight in the name of the struggle. It is a means to an end that places final solutions in the context of what is only a hope of achieving genuine equality. Music is voice, and voices, and collectives who speak […]

On August 15, a 19-year-old transgender woman known as Tiffany (nee Donta Gooden) was found murdered in Chicago. This is the second murder of a transgender woman in the last four months, both of which occurred on the city’s west side.

We remember the life of Whitney Houston as today would have been her 49th birthday. What’s your favorite Whitney song? Will you be seeing Sparkle?

In an interview with the Hollywood Reporter, activist and showbiz legend Harry Belafonte took Jay-Z and Beyonce to task for ‘turning their backs on social responsibility. Do you agree?

Tribal relationships—unions of people that involve romance and creativity—are hard to maintain because of conflicting worldviews. What it means to be a man or womyn in love causes problems for many tribes because their demands and dreams clash without a middle ground. Since I’m raised to be a black male by other black males, my […]

It surprises me how much of the city builds a fantasy in a larger reality of racism. Outside of downtown and the “hood” there’s an intense atmosphere of hatred and disregard for people-of-color. Maybe people-of-color provokes the idealistic bubble of a city person; in places like Buffalo, New York the black person is breathing scum […]

GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney spoke before the NAACP, and got booed. Responding later to the NAACP audience’s reaction, Romney said, “Remind them of this: if they want more stuff from government, tell them to go vote for the other guy…”