Posts tagged with Chicago

Youth Equally Disaffected In The U.S., So Could U.K. Riots Happen Stateside?

0 comments, 29/08/2011, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in apple, mobile, News, Politics As Usual, program, World News

Americans have watched in astonishment, along with the rest of the world, at the violence that's erupted in England as young, disaffected Britons take to the streets to vent their rage. But could it happen in the United States as it grapples with a 25 per cent youth unemployment rate an... Read more...

Your City and School Are Asked to Join The Million Father March

1 comment, 19/08/2011, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in Do The Knowledge, Edu-tainment, Giving Back, News

Black Star Project, a Chicago-based organization that launched the Million Father March, which encourages fathers to escort their children to school on the first day of class, now wants fathers to make an additional commitment to their children's education. "We are asking fathers and other si... Read more...

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Black Children Leaving Large U.S. Cities in Droves, Analysts Say For a Variety of Reasons

1 comment, 10/08/2011, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in Freeing Slaves, News

A catastrophic flood emptied New Orleans of much of its black youth. Powerful social forces may be doing a similar thing to places like Harlem and Chicago's South Side. Over the past decade, the inner-city neighborhoods that have served for generations as citadels of African-American life and cultu... Read more...

The Most Important Cities In the Music Industry Today

5 comments, 04/08/2011, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in Music, News, Radio, Technology, TV, World News

Via: Where does the music industry live today, anyway? The simple response is 'everywhere,' because creation, innovation, and promotion can happen anywhere, anytime. But ultimately that answer is too simple, too digitally utopian. After all, great music demands great marketing, and careers requ... Read more...

Aldermen Want 8:30 p.m. Curfew For Chicago Kids Under age of 12

4 comments, 03/08/2011, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in News, Politics As Usual, program, Protest/Activism

Chicago kids under the age of 12 would have to be in the house by 8:30 p.m. on weekdays and 9 p.m. on weekends, under a curfew crackdown proposed by three South Side aldermen Wednesday to rein in "unsupervised" children. Public Safety Committee Chairman Michelle Harris (8th) joined Aldermen Toni ... Read more...

Hackers Grab 90,000 Military Emails, Encrypted Passwords

4 comments, 27/07/2011, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in News, Politics As Usual, Propaganda, Technology, World News

An online break-in at a defense contractor left tens of thousands of .mil email users at risk of having their account illegally accessed or even hijacked for nefarious purposes. A hacker collective that calls itself AntiSec said Monday that it had stolen 90,000 military email addresses and en... Read more...

Austin Woes Are Capped by Decision to Fire Teachers and a Student Protest

0 comments, 08/07/2011, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in News

By MERIBAH KNIGHT After discovering last week that nearly a quarter of their teachers were being dismissed, students at Austin Polytechnical Academy decided to take extreme action. Holding secret planning sessions under the guise of a robotics team meeting, they plotted. First, they gathered ... Read more...

The Power of Flash Mobs: You Cannot Police Hopelessness and Despair!

0 comments, 05/07/2011, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in ipad, iphone, mac, News, Technology, The Facebook Killer, TV, twitter, Video, World News

When will Violent Flash Mobs come to your city or to Canada or the United Kingdom and what can be done to prevent them from forming? Click Here to see video on Flash Mob Violence in Chicago, Illinois Click Here to see video on Flash Mob Robbery in Washington, D.C. Click Here to see video on Flash... Read more...

Million Father March: Will Your City or Town Participate this Year?

0 comments, 01/07/2011, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in Do The Knowledge, Freeing Slaves, News, Press Release, program, World News

The only thing that stands between the children of your community receiving an excellent education or not is your involvement, or lack of it, in their education. Will you join the Million Father March? It is easy! It does not take much time. It does not take much money. We give you ev... Read more...