Did you ever wonder who invented the Cell Phone? Ok, let's say that you are on a TV game show and have to answer this question to win $10M. The question is, who invented the cellular phone? In all probability most of us could not Answer this question. Those of you who know are in a very small minor... Read more...
October 14th: Ritz At The Bourse-Philadelphia Winner of The Best Editing prize at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, Black Power Mixtape, is an irresistible audiovisual collage, the film combines a treasure trove of recently rediscovered footage of the 1967–75 Black Power Movement with penetr... Read more...
An overlooked corner of the dropout problem became more visible Thursday when state officials for the first time released the dropout rate for eighth-graders. Statewide, about 3.5% of eighth-graders - 17,257 in all - left school and didn't return for ninth grade, according to the state co... Read more...
According to Raymond DePaulo, Jr. M.D., Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, African American populations do not have higher rates of depressionin the US. However, the statistics may be skewed because African Americans are much less likely to report their symptoms ... Read more...
For more than a decade, anthropologists and historians pieced together the history of a short-lived African-American community that was snuffed out in the 1850s by the creation of Central Park. They combed vital records and tax documents, scanned parkland using radar and studied soil borings. But... Read more...
A catastrophic flood emptied New Orleans of much of its black youth. Powerful social forces may be doing a similar thing to places like Harlem and Chicago's South Side. Over the past decade, the inner-city neighborhoods that have served for generations as citadels of African-American life and cultu... Read more...
But no word about the nasty diarrhea inducing fake food huh? Solid.... Making the Twitter rounds on a super-sized scale over the weekend (under the hashtag of #seriouslymcdonalds) was this obviously fake sign that’s allegedly in a McDonald’s restaurant. It claims that “African-America... Read more...
When emigrated from Nigeria with her family in 2005, she left behind her home and her native tongue, but held fast to one simple principle: "If I wanted to be the valedictorian, I couldn't slack." On Wednesday, she will give the valedictory speech - in English - at the Social Justice Academy i... Read more...
In 1890, the woman suffrage movement began, black and white women fought together for the same goal — enfranchisement of women. But as the movement gained popularity, African American women found themselves being marginalized. African American women soon found themselves fighting against sexism ... Read more...