National

The Wonkblog over at the Washington Post has a pretty interesting write-up of new research from the Public Religion Research Institute. In a study of race and friendship, PRRI found that…

Black History Month

This year marks 50 years since Freedom Summer, when nearly 1,000 volunteers travelled throughout the Southern United States to register black Americans to vote. Many…

Black women remain among the hardest hit, and the hardest to reach about HIV/AIDS prevention more than 30 years into the epidemic. The Center for Disease Control has launched an aggressive campaign “Take Charge,Take The Test” in hopes to put a dent in the startling statistics. One in 32 black women will contract HIV/AIDS in […]

Today is National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. Get educated and know your status!! While African Americans only represent 14% of the U.S. population, Blacks account for 44% of all new HIV infections. For more info click here….. …..

R&B singer Lyfe Jennings is notoriously known for his inspirational messages to females concerning sex and self-esteem. Being a celebrity, Jennings knows firsthand how women throw themselves at men for attention which he mentions to be unattractive. “I get a lot of women coming on too strong. I’m a hood dude so imagine how strong […]

The social net for high school dropouts is gone forever. When the manufacturing base in the U.S. was strong, a young man could drop out of high school and safely land at a factory with an $18 an hour job. Today, young African American males are dropping out of high school at the highest rate […]