Megan Piphus, an upperclassman at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, recently appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. She’s using music, ventriloquism, and puppetry, to inspire youth to dream big and in color!
In the wake of the terrible massacre in Newtown, Conneticut, Democrats (and many Republicans) are pushing for the return of an assault weapons ban. Would such a ban go far enough?
Yesterday John Boehner announced the 19 House Committee Chairs for the next Congress.All of them are white men. Will the GOP ever take seriously their inability to connect with women and minorities?
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Barack ObamaĀ Much has been made in the last few weeks of the decisive victory President Obama and the democratic party enjoyed on election night. Many people believe that Obama’s landslide victory has given him a mandate, but does this includeĀ foreignĀ policy? Does President Obama now have the power […]
Before I return to my usual schtick of hating on celebrities I’ll never meet, I’d like to say a brief word about last week’s presidential election. I know. I should leave well enough alone. It is, in fact, all over. After all, most of us are recovering–or experiencing withdrawal–from a presidential campaign high that lasted […]
With all the hate speech on twitter after Obama’s reelection, Jezebel.com noticed many of the perpetrators were teenagers, and investigated if any were facing consequences for their words. Should students face punishment in school for exhibiting offensive behavior online?
Today, BYP releases its latest memo: “The Political Impact of Young People of Color in the 2012 Election.” This new analysis shows that youth again increased their presence at the voting booth, and this increase was driven largely by high levels of turnout among young Blacks and Latinos.
Yesterday, we told you about students at the University of Mississippi who decided to burned Obama/Biden signs and spewing racial epithets in response to Obama’s reelection. Well, yesterday an even larger group of Ole Miss students got together for a unity march. Amazing.
What do you want to see happen in Obama’s second term? A concerted effort to lower unemployment among blacks and youth? Same-sex marriage? Better foreign policy? Sound off below!!!!
This is it, folks. Election day is finally (read: mercifully) upon us. Please get out to the polls today and make your voice heard.
This wasĀ originallyĀ part of a larger song I wrote about race in thisĀ presidentialĀ election. Ultimately I decided not to drop it, but I felt this verse truly captured the reality of how race andĀ privilege play a huge part in thisĀ country’sĀ perception of who or what is American. Recently theĀ Washington PostĀ ran a article thatĀ concludedĀ this years election is, “shaping up […]
