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Meeting David Wilson

I haven’t seen it being publicized in too many circles, but this story is amazing and is a ‘must watch’.
One of the PR firms for MSNBC contacted me and wanted to share a special they are doing tonight about a very unique experience of a young black professional, 28-year old journalist David Wilson. He traces [...]

11Apr2008 | Fredric | 3 comments | Continued
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Black in America on CNN and HBCU campuses

I received a nice email from a PR rep at CNN about a special tour they’re doing to get a ‘grassroots’ perspective on what it means to be Black in America. The concept is pretty neat as it enlists the opinions of students on HBCU campuses to provide a report, documentary style, to share with [...]

8Apr2008 | Fredric | 3 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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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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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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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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Check It Out

If you haven’t added TheRoot.com to your regular reading of issues affecting black Americans, perhaps its time to start.
There’s some good stuff about Obama not attending Tavis Smiley’s State of the Black Union for the second time in a row; The Bush Family’s slave-holding past and the Blackness Diet.

18Feb2008 | Eugene | 1 comment | Continued
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American Lives

Despite the attention it received in recent years, I’ve never really had the desire to trace my roots back to Africa. Because the DNA is only traced back through a handful of women, the information would represent such a small percentage of my history that I wasn’t sure that it was worth it. (They [...]

7Feb2008 | Eugene | 1 comment | Continued
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