African-American Rapper

When African-American music mogul 50 cent offered a million dollars to Africa’s literary giant Chinua Achebe for rights to use the title of his novel classic “Things Fall Apart,”. read more

Most people outside Colombia know about the country’s African population
through the music of groups like Latin Grammy winners Choquibtown

Prison and Poverty for All: The Future We Live In

It’s too bad Eugene Jarecki already used the title “Why We Fight” for his breakout 2006 documentary about war profiteering, because he could so perfectly have applied it to his newest movie, "The House I Live In" read more

New York State Has Lowest
Black Male Graduation Rate in US

Harlem Children’s Zone Sends 100% of 2012 Grads to College

76% Poor, 86% Black, 100% Admitted to College
Yesterday when the Schott Foundation released its biennial report about the education of black and Latino males, the foundation’s president and CEO made a dire prediction. John H. Jackson told the AP that it would take 50 years for black males to close the national 26 percent high school graduation gap with white males. If he’s right, the timeline is much longer in New York State and New York City, which have among the worst high school graduation rates for black males in the country, according to the report.
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U.S. is the Worst Police State in the World –
By the Numbers

There’s no getting around the fact that the United States is the Mother of All Police States. China can’t compete in the incarceration business. With four times the U.S. population, it imprisons only 70 percent as many people – about the same number as the non-white prison population of the U.S. Even worse, 80,000 U.S. inmates undergo the torture of solitary confinement on any given day.

U.S. is the Worst Police State in the World – By the Numbers

A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford

“The American People of Color Gulag is as large as the entire prison population of China, a country of nearly 1.4 billion people.”

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Diddy Calls Out Obama:
He Needs To ‘Do Better’ For Black People

With African American unemployment 86% higher than whites, predatory lenders directly targeting the Black community and Black mothers going to jail for seeking quality education for their children, a growing chorus of Blacks are beginning to expect more direct action from President Barack Obama on behalf of the African American community.

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Economic Trap

Professor Chancellor was important in identifying the economical trap. This is where African, Afro-European and African American  people are paid LESS than Whites (because of discrimination, unemployment, underemployment, and lack of promotion), but are required to pay MORE than Whites (for consumer goods, taxes, rents, and insurance).
In addition, African people are more likely to be in geographical areas where inflation is higher. African  people are also probable to be land to a lesser degree, capital and asset. Finally, their labor is robbed of its vitality by the business.

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