Andre J. Jackson/ Detroit Free Press About 50 high school students at Frederick Douglass Academy in Detroit were suspended today after walking out of classes to protest a lack of consistent teachers, the removal of the principal and a host of other administrative problems at the all... Read more...
![Fake Marijuana Use Rising, Connected To Death, Violence And “Bodily Harm”](http://iamnotarapperispit.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/giantjoints.jpg)
Phony marijuana targeted by recent state legislation sounds worse than the real thing, if you believe Georgia’s governor. Chase’s Law strengthens a ban on "synthetic marijuana," ground-up plant material laced with chemicals that mimic marijuana. Chase Burnett, the bill’s namesake, was f... Read more...
![Alaska Company @AK_Distillery Unveils Hemp Seed Vodka](http://iamnotarapperispit.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/1745822413_wF8VhhS-M.jpg)
During at least one 420 celebration in Alaska on Friday, you’ll be invited to pour yourself a drink instead of lighting up. In the counterculture world, "420” is the code for cannabis consumption, and April 20 — or 4/20 — is the holy day. But instead of passing around a joint, wh... Read more...
![Definition Of Controlled Substance Schedules](http://iamnotarapperispit.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/tumblr_m1wp570B0t1rp7vteo1_500.jpg)
Look at the list of Schedule 1 drugs... How does Marijuana fit into this list?? The drugs and other substances that are considered controlled substances under the CSA are divided into five schedules. A listing of the substances and their schedules is found in the DEA regulations, 21 C.F.R. Sectio... Read more...
![Third Straight Year of 100% College Admission at Urban Prep Academy](http://iamnotarapperispit.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/urban.jpg)
For the third year running, an all-male charter school with students from Chicago’s roughest neighborhoods is sending its entire senior class to college. Urban Prep Academy reports that all 85 seniors graduating from the all-male preparatory school have been accepted to four-year colleges or ... Read more...
![More Than 100 Million Americans Now Listen to Online Radio By #PodcastWednesdays](http://iamnotarapperispit.com/wp-content/uploads/S0W5I.jpg)
This is a format exploding in front of our very eyes. It's bigger than Pandora, and in fact, it's the reason why Pandora has so many jabbing competitors! According to just-released survey data from Edison Research and Arbitron, 103 million Americans are now accessing online radio in some form, in ... Read more...
![Dear Trayvon by D.L. Hughley](http://iamnotarapperispit.com/wp-content/uploads/dl.jpg)
Dear Trayvon, I have been captivated by your story ever since I first caught wind of it in February. Like your parents, and countless other Americans, I want justice for you and the life that you will never get to live. I am saddened by the recent attacks on your character from various anonymou... Read more...
![Mayor Nutter At The 9th Annual Mayor’s Summit On Race, Culture And Human Relations](http://iamnotarapperispit.com/wp-content/uploads/5fd6da74-3dad-4fa0-a0b9-04d15ddfd989.jpg)
And boy, did he say a lot. Mayor Nutter gave a speech entitled Cities United: A Conversation about Deaths of African-American Males, in Tallahassee, FL. With the speech being in Floriday, of course Trayvon Martin was brought up (with Nutter calling his death an “assassination”), along with p... Read more...
![Teacher Training, Taught by Students](http://iamnotarapperispit.com/wp-content/uploads/METJOURNAL-popup1.jpg)
Eyka Stephens, a trainer in a program for teachers, dancing with a student, Roquan Greene, at Brick Avon Academy in Newark. (Photo by Richard Perry/The New York Times) Syidah O'Bryant scribbled notes in a composition book, trying to keep up with a lesson about why teenagers are so sleepy in the mor... Read more...