Honors Student Fatally Beaten in Chicago

From the Chicago Sun Times: The family of Derrion Albert, the 16-year-old fatally beaten Thursday in an after-school mob melee in Roseland, struggled Friday to understand how their honor roll student’s life could have ended in such violence. Derrion has never been in a fight in his life,” said Joe Walker, Derrion’s grandfather who raised [...]

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Check Out ‘Bronx Princess’

Update: You can read my review of the documentary for Clutch magazine here. “Bronx Princess” is a new documentary on PBS following the life of a young teen, Rocky Otoo. Below is a synopsis of the documentary and a short preview. You can watch the entire film online here until October 23rd. Rocky Otoo is [...]

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Young Ladies, You Can Look Sexy With Clothes On

I was watching the interview above with female rapper Nicki Minaj for Honey Magazine – one of my fellow J school alumnae edited the video by the way (random shout out over) – and I noticed that Ms. Nicki looked different somehow. I haven’t heard her music, but I’ve seen pictures of her looking like [...]

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Check Out ‘Brick City’

I can’t bemoan negative media images, stereotypes and buffoonery without highlighting the positive. “Brick City,” executive produced by Forest Whitaker, is a five-night documentary set in Newark as the city’s mayor, Cory Booker, and residents strive to make the community a safer place. It airs all this week at 10 p.m. on the Sundance Channel. [...]

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Cartoon by Jimmy Margulies

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Good Reads

I didn’t feel much like writing today, so instead I’ll just link to some interesting articles I came across today and would like to share. As if Caster Semenya hadn’t already been through enough: “Athlete Caster Semenya has pulled out of her return to competitive sport amid growing fears over the psychological impact of rumours [...]

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Guest Post: Black in America 2 Is An Improvement

I wasn’t sure how far into BIA 2 I would get after my reaction to last year’s program. So I let my friend and fellow journalist – she’s in broadcast – take the reign to review the program. Here are her thoughts on the first installment of the documentary: By: Ahnomaly Black in America 2 [...]

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Don’t Believe The Hype: There’s No Post-racial/Colorblind America ‘Round Here

Update 1: It looks like another pool has opened its doors to this children’s day camp. Update 2: Now that the story has created a media stir, suddenly the swim club wants to re-invite the day camp back to their pool. “The board decided we would reach out to Creative Steps to . . . [...]

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Eyebrow Weave: Straight Foolishness Foolery

Why Lord? Why? And I saw this mess after watching the BET awards. Straight foolishness. A piece of my soul died after watching BET for 3 1/2 hours last night. The other half wept at this video. Who thought this was OK?  Child, boo. Extra boo on you for doing that to yourself.

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WTF? Bring Your Handguns To the Altar?

A pastor in the US state of Kentucky told his flock to bring handguns to church in what he said was an effort to promote safe gun ownership.   Pastor Ken Pagano told parishioners to bring their unloaded guns to New Bethel Church in Louisville for a service celebrating the right to bear arms. He [...]

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