"This month’s Key Studio VIDEO Session spotlights Chill Moody, an emerging Philadelphia rapper who’s built his spot from the ground up in the city’s vibrant hip-hop community. In our interview, Chill tells us about the musical influences he absorbed growing up in West Philly, his do-it-yoursel... Read more...
Peter Thiel raised a $32 million fund to invest in startups in... New Zealand, reports the WSJ. The reports say he "set up" or "opened a fund", but this is not technically true. As we reported more than a year ago, Thiel has been actively investing in New Zealand for many years. His New Zealand ... Read more...
Here's a big shift happening right before our eyes: Smartphones now account for 50% of all mobile phones in the United States, Nielsen reports. Don't expect smartphone growth to slow any time soon. In the last three months, 66% of all mobile phones sold were smartphones Read more...
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...
This is alarming... Their are black males in Milwaukee? Only about 45-percent of working age black men in Metro Milwaukee had jobs in 2010. That's according to a study of census data by UW-Milwaukee. A report released yesterday showed that the area's black male employment was 53-percent just... Read more...
Human rights organizations, as well as political and social ones, are condemning what they are calling a new form of inhumane exploitation in the United States, where they say a prison population of up to 2 million - mostly Black and Hispanic - are working for various industries for a pittance. F... Read more...
The billboard wars between atheists and believers have raged for years now, especially around New York City, and a national atheist group is poised to take the battle a step further with billboards in Muslim and Jewish enclaves bearing messages in Arabic and Hebrew. American Atheists, a... Read more...
This website represents an effort by the friends and family of MAD (ESC KD WH NSF crews; co-founder of the INFAMOUS MAG; respected Philadelphia artist; and all-around good dude) to raise funds to help him support himself and his family during his battle with CANCER. MAD was rushed to the hospital... Read more...
Spain has introduced a thought-to-be-dead SOPA-style anti-piracy law. But it now appears that the U.S. government pressured — and threatened — Spain’s vulnerable economy. Spain has this week adopted a law similar to that of the SOPA in the United States, allowing sites to be blocked at ISP-... Read more...