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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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The Rightful Place of Science in Society and the African-American Community

In President Barack Obama’s Inauguration Speech, he vowed “to restore science to its rightful place” in society. Wow, that fills me with an excitement and eagerness to do and share science more than before. However, what is science’s rightful place in society? What place should science have in the African-American community?

The Rightful Place Project

There has [...]

2Feb2009 | dnlee | 2 comments | Continued
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Undergraduate Research - It’s a Good Thing

During my first senior year of college, I signed up to do a Senior Problem, also called a Senior Thesis. It was a two semester independent research study on sheep. I studied the seasonal influences of mating and reproduction of a Southeastern Ewe-flock. I spent a lot of time on the University’s farm (I was [...]

7Jan2009 | dnlee | 4 comments | Continued
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22nd Kellogg BMA Conference, Feb 20-22

Remember how I said, back in the day, I met Obama and had a nice good talk with him? Well, this was the event I met him at. For those interested in pursuing a MBA or just want to participate in stimulating conversation from our community leaders, don’t miss the 22nd Annual Black MBA Conference [...]

29Dec2008 | Fredric | 1 comment | Continued
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Startup Hookup Part II

If starting a business were like playing Dominoes, studying long would be studying wrong. Fortunately, it’s not. If you are going to start a business, you have to hit the books. We’ve already covered the Dream Phase where you let your mind run free. Creativity and ‘outside the box’ thinking were the topics of choice. [...]

1Jul2008 | Molifeney | 0 comments | Continued
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What were you thinking?!

Uh, did Eddie Griffin REALLY think he was going to get away with this in front of a group of bougie …. uh, I mean …. not-so-young black professionals like this?!
Comedian Eddie Griffin was pulled from the stage at the 14th annual Black Enterprise/Pepsi Golf & Tennis Challenge after repeatedly using the “N” word.
To [...]

6Sep2007 | Eugene | 7 comments | Continued
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10 things that are not ybp (young, black, or professional)

i feel like this post will be me on a soapbox, but i was on the train this morning and felt it needed to be addressed. while i don’t consider myself anyone’s keeper, i do think that common sense and professionalism yield a set of unspoken rules about being a ybp.

being late. rule of thumb: [...]

14Aug2007 | Fredric | 19 comments | Continued
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The Black Dollar Days Task Force

With new condos and middle-class faces moving back into cities, Black businesses are starting to struggle even as new wealth enters their neighborhood. In a word, it’s gentrification and it eats up most black businesses. Anyone who has ever tried to be an entrepreneur and start their own [...]

3Jul2007 | Kimberly | 2 comments | Continued
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imoovie.com : independent films

we’ve always made it a point here at ybpguide to bring our audience snippets of life that may not immediately yield itself through everyday experiences in an effort to make ourselves more well-rounded. not only did we highlight how to taste wine, we also followed it up with a spotlight on delicious wines from africa. [...]

2Jul2007 | Fredric | 5 comments | Continued
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5 important reasons why ybp’s should blog

one of the best attributes about my best friend is his frank honesty. whether i’m talking to him about life, music, or drama within our little bourgeois black circle, he always tells it like it is. his honest disdain, however, remains everytime i bring up our blog, ybpguide. forget the fact that i think our [...]

26Jun2007 | Fredric | 1 comment | Continued
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rsspect.org

the young black professional guide would like to announce the completion of rsspect.org, a new project that, hopefully, will begin networking a lot of the black blogs.
the concept of rsspect.org is very simple. it is a neat little web application that acts as a headline feed reader for a variety of blogs surrounding the african-american [...]

31May2007 | Fredric | 18 comments | Continued
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