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...
Imagine Soldier Field beyond capacity, brimming with 63,879 young African-American men, ages 18 to 24 — more than U.S. losses in the entire Vietnam conflict. Imagine the University of Michigan’s football stadium — the largest in the U.S. — filled to its limit of 109,901 with black men, age... Read more...
Wow... I know alot of young women who need to listen to this song Nas - Another Black Girl Lost Read more...
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...
But why the f*ck.... nevermind Well, that was uncomfortable. Despite supposedly having been dead for over 15 years, Tupac Shakur joined Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg on the main stage at Coachella late Sunday night. An all-too-realistic hologram of the late rapper rolled through "2 Of Amerikaz Most... Read more...
Don Buckley lost his job driving a Chicago Transit Authority bus almost two years ago and has been looking for work ever since, even as other municipal bus drivers around the country are being laid off. At 34, Mr. Buckley, his two daughters and his fiancée have moved into the basement of ... Read more...
Download: Kid Static - Moonlight From his upcoming album "It Gleams" dropping June 1st. http://www.kidstatic.com 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...
Normally you'd call BS immediately on something like this. Except that this was allegedly said by Mel Gibson, whose confirmed quote gallery includes 'Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world,' among other problematic utterings. Which brings us to these pronouncements about John Lennon... Read more...