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...
Human rights organizations, as well as political and social ones, are condemning what they are calling a new form of inhumane exploitation in the United States, where they say a prison population of up to 2 million - mostly Black and Hispanic - are working for various industries for a pittance. F... Read more...
11 years after her death, VH1 has updated their “Behind the Music” special with singer/actress, Aaliyah, which originally aired over a decade ago back in 2001. Focusing on her rapid rise to fame and the tragic August 25th 2001 death that cut her life and career short, the hour-long document... Read more...
Astronomers have detected the first Earth-sized planets, which are orbiting a star similar to our own Sun. In the distant past they may have been able to support life and one of them may have had conditions similar to our own planet - a so-called Earth-twin - according to the research team. They... Read more...
Days of Rage, Rebellion and Revolution A Book Review By Mumia Abu-Jamal Love and Struggle: My Life with SDS, the Weather Underground and Beyond, by David Gilbert. (Oakland, CA: PM Press, forthcoming—December 2011). Perhaps it is the times: the election of a Black preside... Read more...
Mumia Abu-Jamal“Wrapped in the sweet, false escape of dreams, I hear the unmistakable sounds of meat being beaten by blackjack, of bootfalls, yells, curses; and it merges into the mind’s movie-making machine, evoking distant memories of some of the Philadelphia Police Department’s grea... Read more...
From direct community programs to compelling video presentations, there are a growing number of initiatives aimed at uplifting Black male youth. In the period since the nation was rocked by the economic recession, nothing has been as heartbreaking to observe as its impact on the employment prospe... Read more...
Purpose is the mother of all relationships and our past decisions are certainly their father. The choices we make determine our future experiences and our thoughts are the sexual intercourse of the mind. Every idea is like a sperm cell and the one that is carried into action is the immaculate co... Read more...
Here's a great chart of what life is like for a startup. It was designed by Paul Graham of Y Combinator, but we just saw it on Fred Wilson's blog. Wilson used it to illustrate a point about startup life: "Many people think startups are up and to the right all the time." They're not. Sometimes it ... Read more...