Legendary producer/host Don Cornelius was found dead early this morning and his Los Angeles home. According to reports, Don Cornelius allegedly took his life from a self-inflicted gunshot. In recent years, the 75-year-old was in failing health and according to various sources, he suffered fr... Read more...
The National Collegiate Athletic Association recently released graduation rate data for all students and also for student athletes at its Division I institutions. The data shows that 43 percent of all black students who matriculated at these colleges and universities in the fall of 2004 earned th... Read more...
' Rosa Our Rosa by Mumia Abu-Jamal For Mumia Abu-Jamal, I am Goldie, his daughter. For Mumia Abu-Jamal, I am Frances Goldin. We gather today over 140 years after the birthday of Rosa Luxemburg – The brilliant thinker, writer, activist and ... Read more...
Here's a look at what people love and hate about the iPhone 4S from ChangeWave Research. G. This iPhone Started Smoking And Glowing After An Airplane Flight At the end of a flight from Lismore to Sydney in Australia, this phone started emitting "a significant amount of black smoke, accompanie... Read more...
The man known for creating the nationally syndicated comic strip The Boondocks in the late 1990s also has his hands in a film being released this weekend. Aaron McGruder, the controversial man with wide-ranging opinions on a vast variety of subjects, co-wrote Red Tails. The project, financed by fil... 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...
Men and women in their late teens and early 20s are struggling, but some are especially hard hit. According to U.S. Census Bureau figures, the unemployment rate last year among high-school dropouts between ages 16 and 24 was 29%-up from 17.7% in 2000 and seven points higher than that of their p... 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...