As athletes parade into London's Olympic Stadium this Friday, Twitter Inc.'s Olympic hopes will play out in a spartan office in Boulder, Colo. There, a handful of people will spend 20 hours a day to help corral millions of Twitter messages from Olympic athletes, their families, fans and NBC tel... Read more...
Are we driving black boys from the classroom? MISPLACED IDEAS about masculinity are forcing many African-Caribbean schoolboys to choose to ‘hustle’ rather than get an education, a top Jamaican educator is expected to say in a speech tonight (Oct 21). Dr. Adolph Cameron, who is scheduled ... Read more...
In an unprecedented deal, Clear Channel, the largest owner of U.S. radio stations, has agreed to pay sound-recording performance royalties to Scott Borchetta's Big Machine Label Group and its artists. The sound recording performance royalty -- which is also known as the artist performance royal... Read more...
Melinda started 2nd grade with everything against her. She lives in poverty, her mom is not literate in English or Spanish, and she was severely abused at the age of 6. At the beginning of the year, she owned only one book. Despite these barriers, Melinda made extraordinary academic progress.... Read more...
Rank - City - Percent Graduating* - Number of Black Male Students* 1) Pinellas County (FL) - 21% - 10,703 2) Palm Beach County (FL) - 22% - 25,029 3) Duval County (Fl) - 23% - 27,749 4) Charleston County (SC) - 24% - 10,875 5) Buffalo, (NY) - 10,217 - 25% 6) Cleveland( OH) - 2... Read more...
