Posts tagged with high

How Much Does a Hit Song Cost, Anyway? Try $1,078,000

2 comments, 09/08/2011, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in Music, News, program, Stranger than fiction, Technology, World News

Via: That's according to NPR, which polled a number of industry experts to determine the real cost behind a top-charting hit. In this case, it was Rihanna's recently-created "Man Down," a big-budget, blockbuster-style blowout that remains unproven. Seem ridiculous? Indeed, the cost includes ... Read more...

Flash Blog: Twenty Something…By: Eric Blair

7 comments, 08/08/2011, by Mr. Blair in A Truth Moment

The day after my twenty-seventh birthday, I am sitting here thinking life is moving fast around me and I am stuck in my ways. I see people I went to high school with, co-workers; shoot even people younger than me are getting married. This train of thought isn’t about marriage but it has me think... Read more...

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Pelican Bay Inmate Hunger Strike Expands To More California Prisons

4 comments, 03/08/2011, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in Freeing Slaves, Jail, News

Inmates in at least a third of California's prisons are believed to be refusing meals in solidarity with maximum-security prisoners at Pelican Bay. Inmates in at least 11 of California's 33 prisons are refusing meals in solidarity with a hunger strike staged by prisoners in one of the system's spec... 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...

“Giving Black Boys a Strong Start”

4 comments, 28/07/2011, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in News, program

When Shawn Dove was in sixth grade, the students at his New York City school were asked to decide which academic track they wanted to follow for the next two years. He decided to choose "major gym," just like the rest of his friends. But when he brought the form home to his single mother and... Read more...

School Is A Community Effort In Indiana District

3 comments, 24/07/2011, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in Edu-tainment, News, program

Being the principal of a "community school" means Kimberly A. Johnson doesn't have to go it alone in addressing some of the social or health problems that distract children from doing well in school. Within just a couple of days last month, a nearby Wal-Mart store agreed to a request from one o... Read more...

The Key to Black Male Academic Success: Mentorship

5 comments, 21/07/2011, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in News, program

Posted on March 22, 2011 by theblackmancan A significant body of empirical research has demonstrated that Black male students academically underperform all students throughout the educational pipeline (Hawkins, 2010; Jackson, 2003). One has to wonder how this can be a reality when there are so... Read more...

“The Boy Who Followed Somebody Else’s Dream”

1 comment, 20/07/2011, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in Movies

By: Marc Cenedella The 4th of July is a good time to reflect on these words from a great American: It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the a... Read more...

South Koreans Balk at Saturdays Without School

0 comments, 20/07/2011, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in News, World News

By Sangim Han and Rose Kim Chung Eunjung, a mother of two sons in Seoul, says South Korea's plan to give children extra playtime by ending Saturday classes means only one thing: more private tutoring. On June 14, President Lee Myung Bak's government announced it would recomm... Read more...