Closing schools doesn't save very much money in the context of an urban district's budget, and selling or leasing surplus school buildings tends to be difficult because they're often old and in struggling neighborhoods, a recent report from a Philadelphia research group says. On the... Read more...
Christina Swarns is the director of the Criminal Justice Project at the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. She is currently lead counsel for Mumia Abu Jamal. Read more...
He's gonna read this and throw one of those "Blow" parties like in the movie The U.S. Treasury Department called Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman "the world's most powerful drug trafficker" Tuesday. The fugitive Sinaloa cartel leader also got a boost from Mexican actress Kate Del Castil... 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...
According to new data released by the NYPD [click here], an average of one student is arrested every day in the city's school system, and three others are issued summonses. During summer school from July through September, four students each day are arrested, and 94% of those arrested are black or L... Read more...
On 12/9/2011 Lana Adams,andLatiaynna Tabb, hosted (and planned) a community panel discussion at Saint Joseph's University on The Portrayal of the African American Woman in the Entertainment Industry. The panel was moderated by Philadelphia's WRNB midday radio host, Moshay Laren and hip-hop... Read more...
Facebook launched a new chat feature that enables people to confidentially chat with a counselor if friends report them as a suicide risk, reports the AP. Friends will be able to report content on the site by selecting "suicidal content" inside of the "harmful behavior" menu. At that point, Fa... Read more...
o_0? DALLAS – Tyler Perry reportedly made an offer to buy American Airlines. They accepted. The new airline: African-American Airlines. The Texas-based AMR Corporation, the parent company of American Airlines, announced that the company filed petitions for Chapter 11 reorganizatio... Read more...
The next London fashion week isn't until next February but already it's on fire. The house of Alexander McQueen this morning announced that it will be putting its McQ label on to a catwalk for the first time and opening a flagship store for the brand next spring. This exciting news for the f... Read more...