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Is It Okay to Drug Test Welfare Recipients?

On Monday Georgia Governor Nathan Deal signed into law a bill that would require applicants for welfare to be tested for drugs. Are such laws providing real solutions to real problems, or is this the byproduct of a war on our nation’s poor, and a violation of the 4th amendment?

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Racists Hack Trayvon Martin’s Email and Social Media Accounts; Find Nothing Relevant…

White supremacists have hacked into Trayvon Martin’s email and social media accounts, and posted the contents online. The results of the hacks paint a picture of a fairly average, college-bound teenager; not some delinquent gangster that deserved to die.

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Geraldo Rivera’s Idiotic Rant: ‘Trayvon’s Hoodie Is As Responsible for His Death as George Zimmerman’

Fox News personality Geraldo Rivera is under fire after asserting that Trayvon Martin’s hoodie is as much to blame for his death as George Zimmerman, the self-appointed neighborhood watch captain who pulled the trigger. Missing the point doesn’t even begin to explain this kind of ignorance…

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R.I.P. The Notorious B.I.G., Hip Hop’s Greatest Emcee

Today marks the 15th anniversary of the untimely death of Hip Hop’s greatest emcee, The Notorious B.IG. Take a moment and check out some classic Biggie videos at BlackYouthProject.com! What’s your favorite Biggie song?

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MISSY ELLIOT’s Top Ten Greatest Music Videos

Missy “Misdemeanor” Elliot crafted some of the freakiest, stankiest, dirtiest, weirdest, most memorable music videos of the 1990’s and 2000’s. Missy’s music was always just as unique, innovative and bizarre as her visual presentation. Check out my list of the greatest Missy Elliot music videos of all time at BlackYouthProject.com!

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News Flash

February 8, 2012 at 11:35am

By Dallas

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Topics: Black Panthers, black power, black women, incarceration, Revolution

Black History Spotlight: ASSATA SHAKUR

Assata Shakur fought for justice and freedom as a member of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Movement, before being falsely accused of murder and sentenced to life in prison. Assata escaped from prison on November 2nd, 1979 and eventually found her way to Cuba. She is a true revolutionary.

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BYP WakeUpCall

February 6, 2012 at 11:17am

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Topics: black history, Harlem, Langston Hughes, Poetry

Black History Spotlight: The Poetry of Langston Hughes

Emerging during the Harlem Rennaisance, Langston Hughes is one of the most important poetic voices of the 20th century. Honor his legacy today by checking out a few of his classic poems below, read by the man himself. “I, Too,” “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” and more! What is your favorite Hughes poem?

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News Flash

February 3, 2012 at 11:23am

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Topics: black history, black history month, black women

Black History Spotlight: Harriet Tubman

Black History Spotlight: In her day, Harriet Tubman was hands down THE baddest woman on the planet.Imagine escaping slavery – literal bondage – only to turn around and risk life and limb journeying back into the South repeatedly, saving 70 people over the course of 13 trips deep into the belly of the beast.

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News Flash

February 1, 2012 at 4:38pm

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Topics: BET, hip-hop, Music, Nicki Minaj

Nicki Minaj’s ‘Stupid Hoe’ Video BANNED By BET

BET has officially banned Nicki Minaj’s new music video “Stupid Hoe” from the airwaves. Watch it for yourself at BlackYouthProject.com. Does it really deserve to be banned?

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Tennessee Tea Partiers Want to REMOVE Slavery, Genocide from Text Books!

Earlier this month, the Tennessee Tea Party presented a proposal to state legislatures that would literally rewrite history, airbrushing or removing all together topics such as slavery and genocide from school text books! The experiences of minority groups througout American history are already way too hard to come by in classrooms across the country; now they want to get rid of them altogether?!

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