Despite facing the challenges of teen motherhood, Kymberly Wimberly had the highest GPA in her graduating class at McGehee Secondary School in Arkansas. Yet shortly after being named her school’s 2011 valedictorian, administrators announced that she would share the title with a classmate…who happened to be white and with a lower class average. Claiming that […]
The Mississippi Delta is the kind of place where everyone shows up for a funeral. It was on such a day in 1997 that Lucas McCarty and his grandfather had come to pay their respects to a young man who’d been killed in a car crash. John Woods was there to bury his son. Lucas […]
It’s a brutal fact that only 25 percent of baby boomers will be able to afford retirement by age 65, and thousands of them turn 65 everyday.
In his latest book, sociologist George Yancey explores the ways Christian colleges promote racial diversity on their campuses, the responses of students and faculty members, and the strengths and weaknesses of multicultural programs.
Cathy Hughes Talk About TV One and the Importance Of Television That Represents Black America Positively
The Issues4Life Foundation, in partnership with The Radiance Foundation, launches an abortion awareness and pro-adoption themed campaign, entitled “Endangered Species.”
What black folks need now, is not to be told that somehow President Obama is going to save them. President Obama is a brilliant man, but number one, he sort of has his hands full, and number two, it’s not President Obama’s job to save black folks. That was my mother’s job. Just like everyone […]
If you were struck with amnesia tonight while you slept, tomorrow would be the first day of your life.
By: Bobby Marvin Filmmaker Janks Morton, director and producer of the critically acclaim films What Black Men Think and Men to Boys, now offers his latest project We Need to Talk: A Message for Our Daughters,a griping documentary detailing the traumatic effects of fatherless homes and strained relationships with men told by 10 African-American women from Chicago. One […]
Though they probably won’t be going out for drinks anytime soon, former President George W. Bush has accepted Kanye West’s apology for branding him a racist during an NBC telethon.
Black male students are nearly twice as likely to drop out of high school as their white counterparts. A new study says that statistic and others call for a different approach to help black men and boys succeed. As head of the Council of the Great City Schools, Mike Casserly has seen lots of depressing […]
A new study shows that way more Black babies are being born to unwed mothers in America. That number is much crazier than you may realize. Children of unmarried mothers of any race are more likely to perform poorly in school, go to prison, use drugs, be poor as adults, and have their own children […]
