Exploitative much? According to stats from All Music Guide (allmusic.com), Tupac Shakur 'released' three times as many albums after his death than before. The posthumous math looks something like this. Prior to his tragic passing in 1996, the rapper had released 5 albums. After his deat... Read more...
The Minister of Information JR interviews Jannah Bey, the sister of Yusef Bey IV, who is on trial for the murder of reporter Chauncey Bailey currently in Oakland, California. .....F*ck... A, 57-year old journalist Chauncey Bailey was walking to work when he was shot dead. Just before 7... Read more...
James Dewitt Yancey (February 7, 1974 – February 10, 2006), better known by the stage names J Dilla and Jay Dee, was an American record producer who emerged from the mid-1990s underground hip hop scene in Detroit, Michigan. According to his obituary at NPR.org, he "was one of the music indust... Read more...
Closing schools doesn't save very much money in the context of an urban district's budget, and selling or leasing surplus school buildings tends to be difficult because they're often old and in struggling neighborhoods, a recent report from a Philadelphia research group says. On the... Read more...
Facebook launched a new chat feature that enables people to confidentially chat with a counselor if friends report them as a suicide risk, reports the AP. Friends will be able to report content on the site by selecting "suicidal content" inside of the "harmful behavior" menu. At that point, Fa... Read more...
A calamity at Dante and Randall's shops sends them looking for new horizons - but they ultimately settle at Mooby's, a fictional Disney-McDonald's-style fast-food empire. Read more...
One of the school districts with over 75 percent of its African-American student body graduating is located on the West Coast. Out of 271 African-American students who attended Berkeley High School, 205 graduated last year. That's one of the highest African-American graduation rates in the count... Read more...
Teenagers can, in fact, make some mature decisions when it comes to sex. The latest government data show that 8 of 10 teen males used a condom the first time they had sex, an increase of 9 percentage points since 2002. The findings, released yesterday, come from the National Survey of Family G... Read more...
As bad as the last recession has been for Blacks in America, recovery might be worse. In the absence of federal policy interventions and without an effective "trickle-up" stimulus plan, Blacks will not only have lost ground during this recession, they will also continue to lose ground during and aft... Read more...