Earlier this week, the FBI trumpeted the news that violent crime dropped 5.5% in 2010 while reported property crimes fell 2.8% during the depths of the worst economic slowdown since the Great Depression. The news, though, is far from positive. Though most regions of the U.S. saw decline... Read more...
Posted on March 22, 2011 by theblackmancan A significant body of empirical research has demonstrated that Black male students academically underperform all students throughout the educational pipeline (Hawkins, 2010; Jackson, 2003). One has to wonder how this can be a reality when there are so... Read more...
Can we blame this on Hustle N Flow, Young Buck or Three Six Mafia? I bet they'll find a way... If you need a little push to talk to your kids about sex, birth control and abstinence, consider this scary story: One Memphis high school has 90 pregnant students. That's 20 percent of the school'... Read more...
Things must be slow in the Tennessee legislature if the most pressing item of business on the agenda is passing a law to ban the sale of “fake urine.” This ‘urgent’ bill would make it illegal to sell fake urine for the purpose of falsifying a drug test. According to the bill’s spons... Read more...
A Chinese supercomputer has been ranked as the world’s second-fastest machine, surpassing European and Japanese systems and underscoring China’s aggressive commitment to science and technology. The Dawning Nebulae, based at the National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen, China, has achi... Read more...