Philadelphia is so broke the city is closing 23 public schools, never mind that it has the cash to build a $400 million prison. Construction on the penitentiary said to be “the second-most expensive state project ever” began just days after the Pennsylvania School Reform Commi... Read more...
Jarrett Sudan Giddings better known by his middle name Sudan is a rapper, guitarist, producer and director born and raised in West Philadelphia. Sudan started rapping at age 11 and recalls the very moment he decided to take his craft serious after hearing Nas and Lauryn Hill's "If I Ruled th... Read more...
Do parents worry about the growing amount of time their children spend with media? One new study suggests that most parents are largely unconcerned. And perhaps no wonder: Parents who show little concern about their children’s use of technology themselves spend big chunks of their leisure time w... Read more...
The Brothers' Network is pleased to invite you to the premiere event of the Henry "Box" Brown Festival. Our festival will feature African-American men who are choreographers, filmmakers, actors, writers, and composers who will interpret artistically the story of Henry "Box" Brown. Our launch even... Read more...
We've noticed a growing interest in rap music among the tech elite in the last couple of years. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, MC Hammer, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, and SV Angel partner Ron Conway famously remixed MC Hammer's "Too Legit To Quit" song in support of the tech-friendly, then San Franc... Read more...
Tay Rhodes new single "Dream to Me" Read more...
In the last decade or so, invisibility cloaks have captured the imagination of researchers and the public alike. The excitement is based on two advances. The first is the idea of "transformation optics," or the ability to bend light around a region of space to make it look as if it weren't ther... Read more...
By kindergarten, 1 out of 4 African American boys in California is convinced he will fail in school, a self-fulfilling prophecy driven in part by poverty and trauma, according to the results of a legislative inquiry. The Assembly select committee investigation on the status of boys a... Read more...