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Black History Presents – Daily knowledge: Robert Hayden (Day 25)

0 comments, 25/02/2012, by Mr. Blair in African-American Awareness, Black People, Blair History Month, General, my people

Robert Hayden Robert Hayden was a poet, essayist, educator. He was appointed Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1976. Hayden was elected to the American Academy of Poets in 1975. From 1976 - 1978, Hayden was Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (the first Af... Read more...

Black History Presents – Daily knowledge: Hallie Quinn Brown (Day19)

0 comments, 19/02/2012, by Mr. Blair in African-American Awareness, Black People, Blair History Month, General, my people

Hallie Quinn Brown Hallie Quinn Brown was a educator, writer and activist. She was dean of Allen University in Columbia, South Carolina from 1885 to 1887 and principal of Tuskegee Institute in Alabama from 1892 to 1893 under Frederick Douglass. She became a professor at Wilberforce in 189... Read more...

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Summer Jobs+ 2012

0 comments, 16/02/2012, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in Giving Back, News

A new call-to-action for businesses, non-profits, and government to provide pathways to employment for low-income and disconnected youth in the summer of 2012. Summer Jobs+ "America's young people face record unemployment, and we need to do everything we can to make sure they've got the op... Read more...

Black History Presents – Daily knowledge: Rita Dove (Day 16)

0 comments, 16/02/2012, by Mr. Blair in African-American Awareness, Black People, Blair History Month, General, my people

Rita Dove Rita Frances Dove is a poet and author. From 1993-1995 she served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, a position now popularly known as "United States Poet Laureate". She was the first, and to date only, African-American to be appointed since the po... Read more...

While We Protested SOPA, They Already Passed ACTA

0 comments, 06/02/2012, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in News, Technology, World News

The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is a plurilateral agreement for the purpose of establishing international standards for intellectual property rights enforcement. The agreement aims to establish an international legal framework for targeting counterfeit goods, generic medicines and cop... Read more...

Should Amazon, Google & Wikipedia “Nuke” The Web To Stop SOPA?

2 comments, 17/01/2012, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in News, Technology, World News

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...

Why The Crazy Copyright Bill Won’t Fix The Broken Web

1 comment, 16/12/2011, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in download, Music, News, program, Technology, World News

The web may not be perfect, but SOPA is a reactionary bill to a broken copyright system. One thought alone: The ‘broken web’ is ironically what makes it work. The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) will starve the web of the oxygen that it needs, issue its marching orders and censor the U.S... Read more...

Which Website Has The Worlds Largest Photo Library ?

0 comments, 03/11/2011, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in News, Technology, World News

Facebook hosts 140 billion photos, and will add 70 billion this year, according to the blog of photo-sharing site 1000memories. Putting this in context, 1000memories made the following visualization which shows how big Facebook's library of photos are in comparison to other photo sharing sites, a... Read more...

Mumia Abu Jamal – Why Jobs Bill Ain’t Enough

0 comments, 10/10/2011, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in Audio, Interviews, program

Mumia Abu Jamal - Why Jobs Bill Ain't Enough When Pres. Barack H. Obama made his speech before a joint session of Congress on his jobs bill, he spoke with an intensity that has seemed to be missing since inauguration day, 2009. The reason is simple: the worsening economy, joined with the gnawin... Read more...

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