With the current National Football League Collective Bargaining Agreement scheduled to expire on March 3, 2011 at 11:59 pm, the sports world is bracing itself for what appears to be a potential lockout of the 2011-2012 football season. The topic has been brewing for years, ever since the original labor agreement was signed in 1993 and...
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Haiti One Year Later: Reflections of a Native Son
As yesterday marked the one year anniversary of the earthquake in Haiti, many reflected on the devastation it left behind and the rebuilding that remains to be done. While the damage and human casualty estimated was overwhelming, the excruciating anguish and misery it caused is immeasurable. Haiti, by all means, has been destroyed by this disaster and...
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One Mic: Chen Lo’s Mission to Impact the World Through Music
Political hip hop duo, Dead Prez, once had a song entitled, It’s Bigger Than Hip Hop. But they weren’t talking about the diamonds on their necks or the size of their bank accounts. The controversial music group was instead describing their mission to empower their listeners to think outside the box and find ways to...
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The Rise and Fall of King James
For all the times we’ve dreamed of seeing the greatest collection of talent on one team in our favorite sport. And for all the times we’ve complained about professional athletes caring more about money than winning. For all the times we’ve criticized professional sports franchises for not doing everything possible to bring our team a championship, there’s a...
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Starving for a DREAM: A Cry for Justice to Sen. Charles Schumer
They can be seen from blocks away amongst a colorful sea of signs and blankets. Some sitting on lawn chairs, a few lying on quilts. But most of them, passing out pamphlets to anyone who will listen. No, they are not the homeless of New York City, loitering the street corners of Manhattan, nor...
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The Dirty Dirty: VH1’s Tribute to Southern Hip-Hop
If you consider yourself a bonafide Southern hip hop fan or are a product of cities like Miami, Atlanta, Houston or New Orleans, then the 2010 VH1 Hip Hop Honors: The Dirty South represents the end of a struggle for a culture that has fought to have a mic on hip hop’s global stage. Airing tonight, June 7,...
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No Child Left Behind, Except in Failing Schools
Here we go again. Education reform is back in the spotlight as the hot topic of debate amongst the American public. It’s a reoccurring conversation that always seems to resurface in time to appease the American elite’s desire to rid America of “failing schools.” It sounds well-intentioned and comes back around every five years or so. It’s...
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Blood Done Sign My Name
If you’re not yet familiar with the name Nate Parker, you’re being deprived of witnessing one of America’s finest young actors come of age before the world stage. Critics and audiences have been raving about his performances on the big screen. With memorable roles alongside Denzel Washington in The Great Debaters and Queen Latifah and...
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Four Days of Nation-building: My Relief Mission in Haiti
Day One: As humanitarian efforts are slowly taking place in some parts of Haiti, the immediate needs of the millions of people left homeless and injured by the earthquake on January 12 are hardly being met. There is still a greater need than there is aid and while the public’s sense of humanity is...
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Haiti: The Scar that Never Healed
It is really a travesty that it took more than a week for relief efforts to get under way in Haiti after millions were left devastated by the crushing earthquake on January 12, 2010. The speed of the humanitarian response to the disaster has come under fire over the past week as nearly half...
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