A Peek Inside Travis Hunter’s New Jacksonville Mansion
In Minnesota Assassination Attempt, Wife’s Split-Second Decision is a Testament to a Mother’s Love
KWN, ‘The Female Version of Chris Brown’ Got Black Men Worried And For Good Reason
Oklahoma Black Man Hit By Patrol Car During Jaywalking Arrest, and That’s Not Even the Most Infuriating Part
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College-Educated Blacks Lose More Jobs than Peers
Our college degrees aren’t saving us, after all. Here’s a whopper from March unemployment data: College educated blacks have lost jobs at twice the rate of their white counterparts during the recession. According to the Economic Policy Institute, joblessness among the black educated class shot up 4.5 percent in the past two years, reaching 7.2…
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White Directors, Black Success
Yesterday the New York Times published an article by Patrick Healy about white directors trumping black ones. This is not a new conversation, but with the recent successes of August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone as well as Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer-winning Ruined—both directed by white directors—it appears the issue has resurfaced with fire. Bartlett…
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We're Torturing Ourselves
If I ever have to die for my beliefs, I sincerely hope that my reward in secular humanist heaven is a bottomless platter of crisp, thick-cut Irish bacon—delicious. But for an al Qaeda suspect locked up at Guantánamo, finding out that interrogators snuck a tiny grain of pepperoni into his already-eaten cheese pizza might be cause…
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No Evidence of Torture
Let me be clear: We all oppose torture. However, to blindly oppose and broadcast lawful interrogation techniques which were used to successfully protect the American people and to extract valuable information to prevent further harm to us is dangerous at best. I’d like to respectfully remind everyone to think back to what life was like…
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Should Illegal Immigrants Receive Financial Aid?
By now I imagine you all have realized that I feel a certain type of way about the rising costs of a college education and the limited funding options available to students. Well The College Board released a report this week that cites a need for federal legislation that would open up in-state college tuition,…
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Thursday's Headlines
CNN: Bombings Kill More Than 70 in Iraq WP: Obama to Host Credit Card CEO, Lay Smack Down BB: US to BofA: ‘You Will Take This Merrill Or We Will Have a Problem’ VOA: Supreme Court to Hears Reverse Discrimination Case Against CT Fire Dept. BET: Don’t Pass the Collection Plate! Pastor’s $600K Salary Causes…
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South Africa Looks Forward
In scenes reminiscent of the historic, first all-race elections of 1994, South Africans of all ages and races pitched up at polling stations Wednesday, some as early as 3 a.m., for what many are calling a watershed moment in the 15-year history of the young democracy. The turnout is the highest since 1994, with 80…
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Should Van Jones be Inside the White House?
This Earth Day, it’s pretty clear that if we humans want to keep chilling on this planet, there’s a lot of work to do. The 9 billion person question: Are the right people dong it? My friend Brentin Mock has write a piece for PARLOUR magazine on Van Jones, newly tapped as a green jobs…
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The New Four Rs: Reduce Reuse, Recycle—Recession
Reduce, reuse, recycle. That’s the phrase. But what most of us forget is that it’s an ordered list. In fact, most of us do it in exactly the wrong order. We gobble up our plastic water bottles and toss them into the recycle bin and call it green. But why are we buying packaged water…
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Green Collar Heroes
Grind for the Green Harris uses hip-hop to teach green principles and produced the first solar-powered hip-hop concert. Pictured with Harris is her husband, Ambessa Cantave, the co-founder and co-director of Grind for the Green. “What hip-hop does is provide a framework where young people realize that they are part of the green movement.” READ…