Community Checkup

Whoa! Jason Whitlock has always been provocative but he came especially hard in his article for Fox Sports in responding to the murder of Redskins’ Sean Taylor. And even before Whitlock wrote this, some bloggers responded similarly–saying what many were thinking but afraid to say. On Tuesday, The Field Negro had this to [...]

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I learned about this on The Black Informant’s blog.    
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) — A teenage girl was locked up on theft charges in an Amazon jail for weeks with 21 men who she said would only let her eat in return for sex, according to authorities, setting off a national scandal over the treatment of [...]

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Check it out. The five-part series, African American Women: Where They Stand, starts tonight on NBC. I’m sure there will be some interesting discussion across the blogosphere following the broadcast (hopefully this site included).
For years, Black women have told their daughters they may have to take care of themselves without a husband [...]

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Participating in the Pangea Day project could be an interesting and powerful learning project for youth (adults too)–particularly those who feel like their voice goes unheard. I’m hoping some black and brown American stories will be included in this. The deadline for submitting is February 15th, 2008 and films must be a maximum of [...]

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A little known fact about Albert Einstein (full article here):
In 1946, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist traveled to Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, the alma mater of Langston Hughes and Thurgood Marshall and the first school in America to grant college degrees to blacks. At Lincoln, Einstein gave a speech in which he called racism “a disease [...]

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Many of us have heard commentary about how black-on-black violence/murder is crippling the black community and how it represents a form of self-hatred. But how much evidence is there to support this belief? I went to the August 2007 special report, Black Victims of Violent Crime, produced by the Bureau of Justice Statistics [...]

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