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Federal Aid Changes Will Prevent People From Going to and Completing School

If you’re a student, you’ve recently received a barrage of emails that look like this: Dear Student: “Over the last few months, Congress has enacted several laws that will change several major federal student aid programs and the ways in which they are administered at colleges and universities around the country. These serious changes will [...]

Facebook Buys Instagram For $1Billion

See, the Recession aint real for everybody! I’m sorry but if you got $1 billion to spend on a damn fad, you got too much time on your hands. And Instagram is a fad. It’s a means to do mobile Photoshop so to speak on pictures of yourself, others etc. Since, I’m not much of [...]

Damn, We Jackin The Babies Now?

It’s not enough that teachers are robbing children of a proper education, now they’re outright stealing from them! A Baltimore second grader complained to her mom that her teacher was taking her lunch money to buy soda. Da hell? I know times is hard! But THIS should not be your Recession Hustle! I always encourage [...]

Recession Hustle At Its Best!

Remember that episode of True Life or whatever and ODB went to the welfare office to cash his welfare check? Remember how mortified we were as a community? Remember how white folks reinvigorated their fake battle against welfare. ***Sidebar***It’s fake because they benefit from welfare more so than anybody else! They aint tryin to get [...]

Cornel West & Tavis Smiley

I had the pleasure of hearing these brothas speak last night. I wish I would have gotten a chance to go to their earlier panel which featured the likes of Michael Moore and Suze Orman. However, I went to their ‘afterword’ which was quite interesting. Now, I don’t agree with everything either of these gentlemen [...]

Julianne Malveaux: Once Again, Everyone Gains While Black Folks Lose

The unemployment rate is falling for the third month in a row, and in December about 200,000 private sector jobs were created.  The monthly unemployment report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics indicated that unemployment has declined by six tenths of a percentage point since August.  Already, some economists are saying we can expect another [...]

Well, Expect California To Be On The Top 5 Dumbass States List In The Near Future

California’s governor is expected to cut $5 billion from public education. Geez, it’s not as if California’s public education system is the best anyways. This is just going to solidify that notion. I would feel bad but hey, it’s California. I hate that state with a passion. My concern comes with the fact that those [...]

Fights Erupt As People Wait In Line For The Newest Jordans

Fights have broken out in DC, ATL, B-More ect as thousands wait in line for the new shoe. Now, I love some nice Js. But these shoes aint even all that hot. Not hot enough to be fighting over especially! I’ve seen better Jordans. And also, is it really going to make that much of [...]

Woman Kills Herself & Shoots Her Childern After Being Denied Food Stamps

This is what is going on in this nation. This is too sad. After being denied food stamps for a fourth time a woman, Rachelle Grimmer, had a stand off with authorities at a Texas Health and Human Services Office. When she still did not get the help she needed, she pulled the trigger on [...]

From Black Agenda Report

Massive Growth of Segregation by Income Among Blacks A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford “Housing segregation among Blacks and Hispanics has, in fact, increased much more sharply than among whites since 1970.” A new report on housing segregation shows that many more Americans live in distinctly poor or categorically affluent neighborhoods than forty [...]