PrinceGeorge's County officials and residents are mourning the loss of Walter Dozier, 60, a former Dr. Walter Lee Dozier education liaison for the county executive's office who died in his Capitol Heights home Monday after succumbing to a long-term illness. Dozier, also ... Read more...
Black, low-income youths struggling the most, with employment rate at historic depths Anjelica Pickett, 17, has been searching for a job for about a year. Despite making as many as five applications in a day during that time, Pickett, now a freshman at Truman College, said she's scored only one ... Read more...
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28/03/2012,
by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in A Truth Moment,
African-American Awareness,
Black People
00 African men, women and children have lain beneath the busy streets of New York for 300 years, waiting to tell their stories on the extent of slavery in the city. In March 1992, leading African-America archaeologist Michael Blakey arrived at the burial ground in downtown Manhattan. "I had... Read more...
As Chicago Public Schools have become increasingly dependent on the police department to control student behavior on school grounds, a disproportionately high number of black juveniles are being thrust into the criminal justice system too early and too easily, according to data from a new report iss... Read more...
Twitter and Russian search engine Yandex have agreed a partnership that will allow Yandex to show new tweets in its search results almost instantly, as Twitter becomes an increasingly important source of real-time information. Twitter will give Yandex access to its so-called firehose of all pub... Read more...
A 2Pac musical play is coming to Broadway in New York City possibly as soon as the end of this year, the Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation confirmed with XXLMag.com. “It’s based off the music of Tupac,” Vernal Cambridge, Executive Director of the Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation, told XXLMag.com... Read more...
![Amanda Diva (@AmandaSeales) – This Too Shall Pass [Video]](http://iamnotarapperispit.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/063.jpg)
Amanda Diva Seales and director Q. Ledbetter ("Manchild", "Technicolor Lover on CreativeControl.tv") join forces once again on this beautifully expressive video for "This Too Shall Pass" prod by: Ski Beatz on Amanda's, "Technicolor Lover FreEP" Read more...
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10/02/2012,
by Mr. Blair in African-American Awareness,
Black People,
Blair History Month,
my people
Margaret Walker Margaret Abigail Walker Alexander was a poet and writer. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, she wrote as Margaret Walker. Walker was a literature professor at what is today Jackson State University (1949 to 1979). In 1968, Walker founded the Institute for the Study of History, L... Read more...
The Obama administration is stepping up pressure on states to make good on their commitments under its Race to the Top competition, after all 12 winners either scaled down plans or pushed back timelines to overhaul their public-education systems. The U.S. Department of Education warned last week th... Read more...