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Langston Hughes #blck Film Festival April 18-26 in Seattle

Update: So I apparently was mistaken from the Beyond Broadway article. This is in fact in Seattle, not New York. My apologies.
Anyone who has met me knows that I rep Chicago hard. I love my city and appreciate the wealth of experience, food, knowledge, and beauty reverberating from it. Just this once, however, I am [...]

10Apr2009 | Fredric | 2 comments | Continued
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National Museum of African-American History Gets Some #blck Architect Genius

Have you seen the final designs that emerged from the architects bidding to shape the National Museum of African-American History? I caught wind of the process via my Google reader and just had to share.
From the Washington Post:
[T]he Smithsonian Institution unveiled conceptual designs from six prominent architecture teams for what could be the last important [...]

8Apr2009 | Fredric | 0 comments | Continued
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10 Easy Ways to Change the World

Ok, do I think the list below will change the world? Not exactly. I do think opening our minds to ways to improve ourselves, our relationships and communities is the beginning of changing the world. I am fairly certain we cannot change other people. Only ourselves. Our own minds. If I want to see more [...]

27Mar2009 | Garry | 3 comments | Continued
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YBP Interview: Dee Adams, Sr. Design Specialist at Yahoo! Inc.

Dee Adams

While at IA Summit 2009, I got a chance to sit down with a very cool person. Deone ‘Dee’ Adams is a Sr. Design Specialist at Yahoo! Inc., a Cornell graduate, and a well-known painter.
She has an eye for many things, whether its practical design or inspiration simplicity. All in all, she is [...]

24Mar2009 | Fredric | 5 comments | Continued
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Hello. How’s it Going?

Have you asked anyone that lately? Seriously.
The days surrounding us recently have been filled, absolutely jammed, with fake billionaires (read: Madoff), unconscionable murder, and economic doomsday that we all need a collective breath.
credit: -Ant
Hello. How’s it Going?

With that, how are you? How is it going? Are you having a good day?
Ask your co-workers. Ask [...]

12Mar2009 | Fredric | 1 comment | Continued
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YBP Guide at SXSW 2009

Just in case you haven’t heard or seen my twitter updates, I’ll be live and in the flesh at South by Southwest 2009 in Austin, Texas with a slew of the black blogosphere this Friday, March 13th through Tuesday, March 17th.

YBP Guide @ SXSW 2009

If you’re in Austin, be sure to stop [...]

10Mar2009 | Fredric | 4 comments | Continued
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Largest General Science Conference Meets in Chicago

This weekend (February 12 -16, 2009), I will be in Chicago attending the annual meeting of The American Association of the Advancement of Science (AAAS). AAAS publishes the magazine Science and is the world’s largest general science conference. Thousands of scientists, including students, educators (K-12 and college), policy-makers, and researchers, will be in attendance in [...]

13Feb2009 | dnlee | 0 comments | Continued
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The Enemy Within

by Justin Giboney
Make an objective appraisal of the following statistics because they form the basis of an inconvenient truth that I would like black America to consider:

A study conducted by criminologists at Northeastern University found that since 2000, while overall murder rates nationwide have fallen, the murder rate among black youth is on the rise.
Homicide [...]

29Jan2009 | trebaker | 4 comments | Continued
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Living in the “New World”

Today was the most amazing event of our life time. So many people have fought and died for this moment. Unfortunately, some of those people are not here to witness it. Today, we saw our 44th President be sworn into office. Let me not state the obvious, because we all know that part. What is [...]

20Jan2009 | mbacox | 3 comments | Continued
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Black Professionals Aren’t Recession Proof

by Malcolm G. Turner
Despite being more educated than our peers, well-spoken, non-threatening, generally good Negroes, Black folks tend to take the brunt of the damage during recessions, all the way from the janitors to the managers. The companies that are forced to comply with these equal opportunity standards are presented with the perfect opportunity to [...]

15Jan2009 | trebaker | 5 comments | Continued
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Make it a Day ON … not a Day OFF - MLKDay ‘09

Friends and citizens, I share with you the message you’ll read on MLKDay.gov, a site designed to remind, encourage and inspire us to spend Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in celebration, remembrance and service.
credit: roblisameehan
MLK Day 2009

In honor of his legacy and dream for all of us, and in keeping with President-Elect Obama’s [...]

6Jan2009 | Garry | 1 comment | Continued
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The Government In Us

by Justin Giboney, Esq.
The late Justice Thurgood Marshall once said:
“We’ve got to get involved in the machinery of this country because if we will not, somebody else will be running it.”
That insight still holds true, especially in this time of adversity and transition. At this very moment, decisions are being made that will determine [...]

30Dec2008 | trebaker | 6 comments | Continued
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