Archive for March, 2008

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Consciousness Today: Jabbawockee or Status Quo?

While watching the season finale of MTV’s America’s Best Dance Crew I learned an interesting and potent spiritual lesson. (This is not uncommon for me. I believe if I am aware and listening for good in my life, it will reveal itself everywhere).
When Mario Lopez introduced montages of each crew’s journey to the finale [...]

29Mar2008 | Garry Bevel | 2 comments | Continued
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Common Speaks Wright

The current atmosphere of today’s political amalgamation stretches the ybp in directions we’ve felt before. Our conscience and soul draws us to the transparent honesty from a candidate like Barack Obama, but our desire to blend in and ‘not make waves’ lends our ear to the often backwards rationalization offered by others regarding Rev. Wright [...]

28Mar2008 | Fredric | 1 comment | Continued
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Banned BET Boondocks Full Episode (Video)

Shouts to Intelligent Ignorance.
Interestingly enough, the question of ‘artistic merit’ is stretched pretty far by McGruder in this episode. While Brandon over at Intelligent Ignorance posed the question of ‘is this more hurtful, than helpful’, I’m reminded of the lessons in history class about the merits of artists that challenged their time, ultimately inventing their [...]

24Mar2008 | Fredric | 4 comments | Continued
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Help an Up-and-Coming YBP

The motto of my fraternity is ‘first of all, servants of all’. It’s simplicity has always rang true to creed I try to live by in a lot of the things I do. One could even say this blog is a testament to that. I try my best to inform our readers, engage our community, [...]

24Mar2008 | Fredric | 1 comment | Continued
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Friday Videos: Mos Def is THAT dude

TGIF

21Mar2008 | Fredric | 2 comments | Continued
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Now What? The Aftermath of the Obama Speech

By Rashad
Senator Barack Obama decided to take a risk yesterday. He could have easily denounced his former pastor’s words and the person himself to appease himself to the “on the fence” voter. He could have listened to the pundits that have labeled him a fraud because he preaches about unity, but attends the [...]

19Mar2008 | Fredric | 2 comments | Continued
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Obama’s Pennsylvania Speech (Transcript and Video)

Borrowed the idea from our friends over at Jack and Jill politics, below is a copy of the speech transcript and the published video directly from Barack Obama’s website. Be on the lookout in the coming days for some great commentary from the family of black blogs, including a possible surprise from this site.
As Prepared [...]

18Mar2008 | Fredric | 2 comments | Continued
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Consciousness Today: the Illegal Download Question

One of the primary markers of consciousness is the awareness that no man is an island; we are not alone, such that most things we do will have an effect on someone else.
I vividly remember sitting in my apartment in college, high-speed internet included in the rent I shared with three other people. Napster blew [...]

12Mar2008 | Garry Bevel | 5 comments | Continued
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Stuff Educated Black People Like

Ok. If you’re a frequent member of the internets, you may have heard of stuff white people like. If not, it’s basically a satirical site that highlights, presumably, exactly what it says.
Enter a ’sister’ site of the same ilk, except of educated black people. While it is really easy for me to just dive into [...]

12Mar2008 | Fredric | 5 comments | Continued
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