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VIA: PraiseHouston.com We all look to Mothers that we love at this time of year. In the next few hours we will be calling out to our mothers, godmothers, grandmothers, and aunts. We are calling to mind all the greatness that wiped our tears, calmed our fears and gave us endless cheers. For this dear […]

I just went to the hospital to visit Rasul “Rocky” Clark, a young man who was once a very talented high school football player. In the year 2000, Rocky took a bad hit, like many of us did while playing the sport. But this hit severed his spinal cord so badly that he was paralyzed […]

NEWARK– Former Cory Booker adviser Cami Anderson has been selected to Newark’s school system.

Close to 51 percent of Black Americans in a recent BlackPlanet/NewsOne poll think that President Obama’s covert operation in which he killed Osama Bin Laden will help him get re-electe. While polls on President Obama’s have yet to come out since Osama’s murder, many are expecting him to receive a positive spike. But while half […]

WASHINGTON– An African-American high school teacher in an urban Washington D.C. neighborhood school blogs about his students in order to capture the experience and challenges he faces to enhance the educational experience and lives of his students.

NEW ORLEANS–Louisiana’s governor wants to merge New Orlean’s sole historically Black state-funded university, Southern University at New Orleans, with a predominately White institution, the University of New Orleans,  in an effort he said to improve both schools’ educational conditions.

WASHINGTON — An African-American high school teacher in an urban Washington D.C. neighborhood school blogs about his students in order to capture the experience and challenges he faces to enhance the educational experience and lives of his students.

CHICAGO– Retired Army major and school chairman Aaron Rucker is being honored with the Governor’s Award for excellence in education and his role in improving programs in a troubled school.

Two nights ago, President Barack Obama made an announcement from the East Room of the White House that was even more stunning than the release of his “long form” birth certificate earlier in the week: “Good evening. Tonight, I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has conducted […]

NEW YORK – I spoke with actor Jeffrey Wright recently at the Black Writers Conference Symposium for playwright August Wilson. In our discussion he said that there was no Black cinema because African Americans do not have the power to tell our own stories. RELATED STORIES Jeffrey Wright Breaks Down His Roles In “Basquiat” And […]

BY: CARLITO RODRIGUEZ “They got him, yo. They got Bin Laden.” That’s how I heard. Unlike other hip-hop journo cum Twitter pundits whose daily grind requires them to keep eyes glued to the tube (“flatscreen” just doesn’t do it for me, sorry) while thumb-typing their way into relevance at 140 characters a minute, my May […]

Religion gives God a bad name. Unfortunately, all some crackpot usually has to do to get a following is cloak himself in one or more tenants of an existing religion and folks will follow him like he’s the New Prophet. And the problem is there are, quite simply, so many tenants. Like, let’s say Osama […]