SKILLZ ft Travis Barker | Celebrate Life from Cristopher Schafer on Vimeo. Coming off a great performance on the BET Hip-Hop Awards Cypher, Skillz releases a new video for "Celebrate Life", which is the latest visual off of his "The World Needs More Skillz" album. DJ Jazzy Jeff makes an ap... Read more...
Following two rough years of drought in the Horn of Africa, the United Nations has declared famine in two regions of southern Somalia. According to the UN, a famine means more than 30% of children in an area are malnourished, at least 20% of households face extreme food shortages and more than tw... Read more...

Photos courtesy Oblate Sisters of Providence Archives, Baltimore, Md. - The St. Frances Home for Girls in Normandy, Mo., near St. Louis, was founded by the Oblate Sisters of Providence, an African-American order providing black girls with elementary education and domestic training. Long before the... Read more...

Mumia Abu Jamal - The World Weeps As the U.S. performed its semi-religious rites in memory of 9/11, it does so with little real question of why 9/11 happened--at least among average Americans. For they have been ill-served by the media, primary educational systems and... Read more...

011 Speech to the Grass Roots Radio Conference August 19, 2011 Kansas City, MO Station KKFI By Mumia Abu-Jamal Ona Move! Long Live John Africa! Dear friends: Attendees at the Grass Roots Radio Conference! Thank you for your invitation. I join y'all today, this way, by necessity; but we ... Read more...

Rupert Murdoch’s media empire News Corp., which represents the second largest media conglomerate in the world behind the Walt Disney Company, is taking a severe beating as Murdoch himself is having to address various criminal allegations, including that hisNews of the Worldtabloid illegally hacked... Read more...

In response to Jay-Z and Kanye West's decision to offer exclusive sales programs to iTunes and Best Buy for their forthcoming "Watch the Throne" LP, a number of independent retailers have written an open letter to the duo protesting the plan, calling it a "short-sighted strategy." Dear Jay-Z an... Read more...
Following LulzSec’s defacement of The Sun on Monday, the FBI swooped down on Anonymous and arrested 16 people in several states for allegedly attacking PayPal. A federal indictment against 14 of the arrested accuses them of launching a Ddos (denial of service) against PayPal after it closed... Read more...