This is a public service announcement to all millionaire gang members – “Stop brainwashing our youth you ignorant bastards!” This goes out to Baby from Cash Money Records with your big red star tattoo on your head, talking about, “keeping it blood all day,” while your son (Lil Wayne) is locked up on Rikers Island for gun charges.
I will come to D.C. and clean up the mess that's been created around you. I will work for $1 a year. I will help the Dems on Capitol Hill find their spines and I will teach them how to nonviolently beat the Republicans to a pulp.
Gangstarr founding member rapper Guru is recovering from a successful surgery yesterday (March 1) , after suffering a massive heart attack over the weekend. Sources close to Guru told AllHipHop.com that the rapper is doing “fine” and should make a full recovery
One of the most under appreciated and least talked about collaborative efforts that involved Hip Hop was the Artists United Against Apartheid and the The boycott of Sun City. For those who don’t recall Sun City was this ultra lavish resort in this ‘phony’ country set up by the South African government called Bophuthatswana.
The United States announced Monday that the Palestinians and Israelis have begun indirect peace negotiations, the first of any talks held since Israel's brief war in Gaza in December 2008.
The Republican National Committee plans to raise money this election cycle through an aggressive campaign capitalizing on “fear” of President Barack Obama and a promise to "save the country from trending toward socialism."
White House officials tell ABC News that in his remarks tomorrow President Obama will indicate a willingness to work with Republicans on some issue to get a health care reform bill passed but will suggest that if it is necessary, Democrats will use the controversial "reconciliation" rules
President Barack Obama is offering $900 million in grants to states and school districts to turn around low-performing schools -- but recipients would have to take drastic action, such as replacing principals, reopening schools as charter schools or closing them outright.
The Senate on Wednesday approved a $15 billion package of tax breaks and highway spending that aims to bring down the country's stubbornly high unemployment rate. By a vote of 70 to 28, the Senate approved the bill and sent it on to the House of Representatives
Harlem’s politics are still run largely by that elite group and its children. The new generation of black political stars are from elsewhere: President Barack Obama, Newark Mayor Corey Booker, Alabama Democratic Rep. Artur Davis. Even more than in Chicago’s aging black political world, Harlem lacks prospects.
Two months after ending his annual State of the Black Union conference, Tavis Smiley is gathering African-American advocates to press the case for a "black agenda." The decision was motivated by what Smiley called recent statements from some black leaders downplaying the need
"Black women are in market failure," says writer Karyn Langhorne Folan. "The solution is to find a new market for your commodity. And in this case, we are the commodity and the new market is men of other races."
African-Americans have long been underrepresented among health care professionals. As of 2005, blacks made up slightly more than 8 percent of first-year medical students in the United States – roughly half of their share of the U.S. population (15.4 percent in 2007)
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