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A Harvard-educated businessman turned educator who struggled with his own academic challenges as a child is Broward’s new schools chief.   The Broward School Board on Wednesday selected Robert Runcie, a computer consultant and chief of staff to the Chicago Board of Education, as the district’s superintendent.   Runcie, 50, who was recruited to help [...]

Cant blame Bush for this one… Last week, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, set up disaster recovery centers in the area for those in need after recent storms. Those centers were overwhelmed this weekend, prompting FEMA to break claims into two categories, food vouchers or property damage.   Food vouchers would be handled [...]

  West Philly community clean up day is October first… I’ll let Sister Betty tell it…  Hey Family & Friends! Me again! I need a favor! I volunteer with Philadelphia Community Corps/United Philly as their Neighborhood Clean Up Coordinator. My job is to scout locations and take requests from our community for clean ups and [...]

I was thinking to myself; wow, this is his mother, Emma Bigglesworth? She’s a beautiful Black woman, curvy, mocha toned brown skin, looks soft, smooth, dark brown eyes, accompanied by long eye lashes, long sandy brown hair, high cheek bones, full lips, and she’s like an angel. She looks as if she’s about forty-five, very [...]

 New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg‘s announcement on Thursday, August 4 launching the Young Men’s Initiative was the culmination of a comprehensive 18-month study led by David C. Banks, Eagle Academy Foundation President and CEO, and Ana Oliveira, New York Women’s Foundation President. Banks was named co-chair to lead the important policy project in January [...]

By: Marc Sims I believe the low-income neighborhood culture, or “the Hood” culture is impeding most African-American children from succeeding in school. This idea hit me when I was giving a career day presentation at a Chicago high school on the Southside. I told the students when my children were little I did not allow [...]

Michael Kors and Co. has just scored themselves quite a chunk of change. The fashion label has sold a minority stake in the brand to a group of investors for no less than $2.5 billion, reports to the New York Post. (If a minority stake is worth that much, what about the whole company? The [...]

As bad as the last recession has been for Blacks in America, recovery might be worse. In the absence of federal policy interventions and without an effective “trickle-up” stimulus plan, Blacks will not only have lost ground during this recession, they will also continue to lose ground during and after the recovery. Whether Black America [...]

Below is a letter from Principal Baye Kemit of Egun Omode Shule: Peace and blessings,   As Principal of The Garvey School/Egun Omode Shule, a small, private African-centered school in Trenton, NJ, I am writing to ask for your assistance in these times of need. Hurricane Irene made its way through Trenton and caused severe damage [...]

They’re more likely than whites to develop a number of chronic and deadly diseases Though minorities in the United States face an array of challenges, chief among them may be personal health and well-being. African Americans, Hispanic Americans and other minority groups are more likely than whites to develop a number of chronic and deadly [...]

Knight Foundation and Open Society Foundations’ Campaign for Black Male Achievement launch campaigns in Detroit and Philadelphia to amplify black men’s and boys’ positive community impact   A new campaign launching today will highlight the stories of black men and boys – celebrating and supporting them as they lead others in strengthening their communities.   [...]

Download Video or MP3 -Iamnotarapperispit.com DOWNLOAD TRACK: http://bit.ly/o96urw On Tuesday, the Bob Marley estate, Simon Fuller, and Island Records founder Chris Blackwell globally released a new video for Bob Marley & The Wailers’ 1973 song “High Tide Or Low Tide.” The video documents the East Africa Crisis that is affecting more than 9 million people [...]