by Furious | May 24, 2013 | News
The Chicago school system, the nation’s third largest, is in big financial trouble, with a billion dollar deficit coming up, falling enrollment, and a recent massive teacher strike over a contract dispute. Now, MSNBC reports, after a heavily protested meeting...
by Furious | May 24, 2013 | News
NewsOne – Yesterday, Sen. Vitter of Louisiana offered up an amendment to permanently drop anyone ever convicted of a violent crime from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). According to Robert Greenstein, president of the Center on Budget and...
by Furious | May 23, 2013 | News
NewsOne – Believe it or not, before Barack Obama (pictured second from right) became the president of these United States, he actually had a life. He was once a teen with not only studies on his mind but playing hoops, goofing with his boys and trying to perfect...
by Furious | May 22, 2013 | News
LA Times – By Walter M. Kimbrough, May 21, 2013 – I was in Detroit preparing to give a speech last week when the news came across my Twitter feed: “Dr. Dre and music producer Jimmy Iovine donate $70 million to USC to create new degree.” As one...
by Furious | May 21, 2013 | Celebrities
Clutch – Actress Zoe Saldana has been inserting the proverbial foot in her mouth in recent weeks. The “Colombiana” starlet has been media blitzing for the upcoming “Star Trek Into Darkness” film and leaving a trail of disrespect in her wake. A...
by Furious | May 21, 2013 | News, Positivity
Huffington Post – Kindergarten may actually teach you everything you need to know. Five-year-old Nathaniel Dancy Jr.’s Newark, New Jersey charter school certainly provided him with the skills he needed to save his father’s life. As NBC News 4 New...
by Furious | May 21, 2013 | Positivity
Clutch – Cortlan Wickliff, 22, is graduating from Harvard Law School on May 3. When he crosses the stage and receives his Juris Doctorate, Wickliff will be the youngest African-American to ever join the elusive law school alumni club. This isn’t the first time...
by Furious | May 20, 2013 | News
This week, President Barack Obama honored the men at Morehouse Collegeby serving as their commencement speaker. But some are saying that the president gave these young black men the kind of speech he’d never have the courage to give to a white audience. The...
by Patrick Irvine | May 19, 2013 | Blog, History
I figured it was time to begin looking at some of the facts of the black community and analyzing them. Not only has this spawned my black fact series of video blogs, but it has also caused me to develop an even deeper passion for my community; the Black American...
by Furious | May 17, 2013 | News
Fortunately, the Swiss National Advisory Commission on Biomedical Ethics (NEK, President: Otfried Höffe) critically commented on the use of the ADHD drug Ritalin in its opinion of 22 November 2011 titled Human enhancement by means of pharmacological agents: The...
