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May 21, 2012 at 8:31am

By Summer M.

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Duets

Although I sorta kinda spoke out against marriage last week, I’m not anti-coupling. In fact, sometimes linking up with another person yields gallons of awesomeness: Jaden Smith and Justin Bieber, Doc Brown and Marty, Pinky and the Brain, Dre and Big Boi, Cephus and Reesie. ABC has decided to capitalize on this with its new [...]

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May 18, 2012 at 10:53am

By Dallas

@radiofreedallas

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Topics: American Values, Criminal Justice, murder, R.I.P., racism, trayvon martin

Autopsy Reveals THC in Trayvon Martin’s System; Why Is This Relevant?

Trayvon Martin’s autopsy results reportedly show trace amounts of THC in his system at the time of his death, and that he was shot from close range. What the autopsy doesn’t explain is why he was stalked, harrassed, and murdered. Go figure.

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May 18, 2012 at 10:00am

By Aaron

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The Media Should Try Asking Youth About Gay Marriage

The gay marriage debate is becoming incorrigibly annoying, and it’s starting to reveal just how completely out of touch mainstream media is with the broader populace. Poll after poll shows you that the country is becoming steadily more accepting of gay marriage, and this recent article from the Pew Research Center says that about half [...]

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May 18, 2012 at 9:36am

By Jonathan

@jonathanlykes

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The Complexity of a Hip Hop Culture That Glorifies Violence, Misogyny, and Homophobia

It is no secret that hip hop can be one of the most oppressive art forms in the black community. Simultaneously, we also know that hip hop a history (of being) and potential (to be) empowering. Yet in the state we find it now, it tends to be a contradicting gray area, instead of a [...]

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May 17, 2012 at 9:03am

By sheldon

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Seeing More Than The Hood

Yesterday I ran across some of the guys I used to run the streets with and we were talking about if anyone was taking any trips for Memorial Day. It was astonishing to me that one of them said that they had never been out of Chicago before. That comment wasn’t surprising but it still [...]

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May 16, 2012 at 2:00pm

By tamara

@tamaracg

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Topics: child abuse

Let’s Break the Silence

While I never suffered abuse at the hands of my mother or father (she was more of a talker than anything and tried to get us to understand our bad behavior by grounding us and he insisted that he could not teach his son that it was wrong to hit girls if he spanked his [...]

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May 15, 2012 at 2:00pm

By Keantre Malone

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Topics: Big K.R.I.T., Black Hippy, Coolin, digital age, emotions, file management, Humyns, J. Dilla, meaning, Mood, mp3, Music, ontology, playlist, productivity, Revolution, social change, technology

The Digital Age and Social Change

Humyns are the type of beings that always must be in the mood. Anything that can manipulate our emotions provides us with resources to do what must be done. Even our leisure time comes from our activities; perhaps smoking outside on a nice afternoon is our picture of a good mood. These days, our lives [...]

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May 14, 2012 at 11:15am

By jasiri x

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You’re Fired

I was in Madison, Wisconsin when the citizens took over the statehouse and it was one of the most amazing events I’ve witnessed. I saw firsthand the power of regular people coming together in unity to fight back against corrupt politicians and corporate influence. I’m honored to add my voice to this historic campaign to [...]

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May 11, 2012 at 7:31pm

By Fallon

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Topics: black feminism, Black motherhood, black mothers, black women, Mother, P.O.W (Push Over Woman), P.O.W.s (Push Over Women), Violence Against Women

On Mother’s Day: The Would be Superhero who Fears Being an Emotionally Arrested Black Mother

Since I was a little a brown girl, I have always secretly wanted to save the world. Yes, the whole big world. To say the least, I was utterly enthralled with movies like Indian Jones and the last Crusade to the point of obscene dissidence to the 80s generational black-uplift narrative of being a lawyer [...]

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May 11, 2012 at 9:27am

By Jonathan

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How To Save Black Youth? Not Through Numbers, But Through Relationships

In this new data driven society, I fear that in many attempts to track success with numbers, we often lose the qualitative aspects of building strong relationships with black youth. We see more often business styled reforms being implemented in education systems that prefer to focus on the bottom line of efficiency rather than focusing [...]

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