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why are black blogs so angry?

now that we’ve moved to a new site, it’s going to take awhile for the new posts to finally make their way through the google spiders and finally get indexed. in the meantime, googling ‘ybpguide’ will bring up most of the blogspot posts. i did some more searching through google’s new blogsearch tool using the [...]

5Mar2007 | Fredric | 17 comments | Continued
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the importance of the history of slavery

i wrote earlier last week about possible link of al sharpton’s ancestors to segregationist strom thurmond’s family and how ‘deep’ it was to come to that realization. if you read the comments in the post, you saw that a few of the readers pursued some of the same avenues with their own lineage through ancestry.com.
well, [...]

4Mar2007 | Fredric | 2 comments | Continued
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Throw Back Posts

YBP Guide may have a new look, but we’ve been around for months! Check out some of our best throw back posts:
be more productive- a few tips and tricks, hardware and software related, that can give you a leg up in the corporate hustle.
Compromise- our take on compromising in romantic relationships.
Losing Your Mind?- tips for [...]

4Mar2007 | Kimberly | 0 comments | Continued
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we are the machine

i was browsing through techcrunch the other day when they mentioned the revival of a cool new web app called ning. it allows virtually anyone to build their own social networking community. the interface is really intuitive and straightforward. the coolest thing about it is the ability to add your own css to the templates [...]

4Mar2007 | Fredric | 0 comments | Continued
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Invest in giving back

Would you like to get great returns on your money AND support black-owned businesses? How? Easy. Invest in Ariel Mutual Funds. Ariel Capital Management, L.L.C. was founded in 1983 by John W. Rogers, Jr. At it’s inception, Ariel offered the Ariel Fund, utilizing a small/mid-cap investment strategy. Now [...]

2Mar2007 | Sheria | 1 comment | Continued
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web development for beginners

following up on my post about learning to program, i learned from digg today that microsoft has released a set tiered tutorials aimed at the beginner in the areas of web development and windows development.
while i will be the first to tell you that i hated programming when i first was exposed to it, i [...]

2Mar2007 | Fredric | 2 comments | Continued
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car maintenance

while i’m never a big fan of forwards, my dad sent me this craptastic video about taking your car to jiffylube. if you’ve ever needed a reason to NOT go to a jiffylube, here it is.
cars today are technological marvels. while they are becoming more and more reliable, they still require routine maintenance. so what [...]

2Mar2007 | Fredric | 2 comments | Continued
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obama’s ancestors possible slave owners

…and the world keeps moving.
the article from the tribe highlights a researcher’s preliminary, and i stress preliminary, findings that obama, whose father is from Kenya and mother from Kansas, may be a descendent of slave owners.
so what’s the point of this story? well, there are two, actually.
the first is that obama, as duly noted [...]

2Mar2007 | Fredric | 26 comments | Continued
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Black News Round-Up

A few months ago Ashley wrote a great post on “Where Do You Get Your News From?” Just to piggy back off of the many useful sites and resources she listed, I’d like to add a few more websites directed towards informing YBPs.
BlackAmericaWeb.com- I personally love Tom Joyner and his website is a great all [...]

1Mar2007 | Kimberly | 1 comment | Continued
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