Upwards of 700 African Americans participated in the international Black Male Achievement Summit Saturday, November 12. Inspired, directed and encouraged by Open Society Foundations' Campaign for Black Male Achievement in New York, in partenership with organizations in 26 cities, these summits exp... Read more...
Check out “The Night” the latest video from Stalley’s Lincoln Way Nights, directed by Dre Films and featuring Rashad. Lincoln Way Nights is available now on Itunes. Stalley’s new project Savage Journey to the American Dream is coming soon! Follow @Stalley and @Bluecollargang! &n... Read more...
One day in March, pranksters turned the cafeteria at Robert E. Lee High School in Fairfax County into a maelstrom of hurled milk cartons and leftover lunch. Close to 100 teenagers joined the melee, flinging sandwiches and water bottles. Hundreds of others, caught in the crossfire, scr... Read more...
Fresh off the critically acclaimed, The Roots "Undun" album, The Legendary Roots Crew affiliate and Money Making Jam Boys member, Greg Porn, releases his first song from his upcoming project, "American Junky". The song is entitled "The World Is Yours" and is produced by Ali Bey of BeatKhem... Read more...
The New York Daily News is in hot water with its Twitter followers. Early Friday (January 20), the newspaper published an article that exemplifies Jay-Z’s “Glory” track, a song dedicated to his newborn daughter, as a long-awaited anthem for Black leaders and family advocates. The piece voic... Read more...
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There is no longer a need for dire predictions, hand-wringing, or apprehension about losing a generation of black boys. It is too late. In education, employment, economics, incarceration, health, housing, and parenting, we have lost a generation of young black men. The question that remains is will... Read more...
It's a nationwide problem, the shortage of black male teachers. Only two-percent of the nation's nearly five million teachers are African American. Twenty-eight-year-old Craig King has taught third grade at Whittaker Elementary School for six years. His students say there's never a dull moment in M... Read more...
Maybe blacking out their Web sites would be over-kill, but the Internet giants could use other joint tactics to kill Stop Online Piracy Act off. With the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), Congress, at the request of big media, is still considering trying to censor the global Internet in the name o... Read more...
Manny Pacquiao's camp says there is no economic sense in setting up a bout with Floyd Mayweather on May 5 after the unbeaten American publicly challenged the Filipino champion via Twitter. Pacquiao's financial adviser Michael Koncz told The Associated Press on Thursday that a 45,000-seat boxi... Read more...