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My Brother’s Keeper: Stop Writing Letters, Just Do the Work
Over the past few days my Twitter feed has buzzed about the letter signed by 1,000 women and girls urging President Barack Obama to broaden his My Brother’s Keeper initiative. The letter and subsequent commentaries attack the president, accusing him of any number of sins for not including women and girls in this program. Yes,…
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USC Doesn't Need Dr. Dre's $70 Million. An HBCU Does
Dr. Dre recently gave USC $70 million to create a new blended arts and business degree, and Walter M. Kimbrough asks in the Los Angeles Times why the Southern California hip-hop icon couldn’t have given that sum to a struggling historically black college. A hip-hop icon is now the new black higher-ed philanthropy king. We’ve…
Black News and Black Views with a Whole Lotta Attitude
