Better than Sisqo!?!
Can’t lie, a tear came to my eye when I heard this one. Check it out!!! The singer is Adi. He’s from Milwaukee.
Can’t lie, a tear came to my eye when I heard this one. Check it out!!! The singer is Adi. He’s from Milwaukee.
Study finds median wealth for single black women at $5
By Tim Grant, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Women of all races bring home less income and own fewer assets, on average, than men of the same race, but for single black women the disparities are so overwhelmingly great that even in their prime working years their median wealth amounts to only $5.
In a groundbreaking report released Monday by a leading economic research group, social scientists turned a spotlight on the grave financial challenges facing an often overlooked group of women, many of whom could not take an unpaid sick day or repair a major appliance without going into debt.
“It’s rather shocking,” said Meizhu Lui, director of the Closing the Gap Initiative based in Oakland, Calif., who contributed to the report “Lifting as We Climb: Women of Color, Wealth and America’s Future.”
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spotted via “The Dude’s” aka Kmos’ facebook page
Dru Hill has been way from the spotlight for over a decade. The quartet recently dropped this powerful ballad. What do you think? Does Dru Hill have what it takes to comeback, or have they been away from the game too long?
Check the video on the other side of the click.
Yesterday, the US Senate defeated a measure that would provide $1.3 billion for summer jobs for young people. They also voted to end relief efforts for poor families with young children. Although Republicans were the loudest opponents, some Democrats also voted against the measure. Perhaps they are not feeling the future.
I think this is an amazingly dumb move. All of us have friends and family members that would benefit from these jobs. But if our nation’s leaders don’t have the heart to stand up for us, we will stand up for ourselves.
Over the next several weeks, legislators in the House and Senate will be jockying to get this measure back in some version of the jobs bill. The margin of defeat was incredibly close in the first round of voting, and our pressure in this period of negotiation could make the difference between failure and success.
Sign your name to our “Lead on Youth Employment” petition and we will hand deliver your message to your elected officials in D.C.!
The Senators that voted against this measure think we aren’t paying attention. They are flat wrong. It is time for the youth of America to stand up to the people who are selling our futures short.
Fill out our “Lead On Youth Employment” petition and we will hand deliver your message to your elected officials in D.C. Make sure you sign even if your Senator voted yes. Show them that we appreciate their support and expect them to do more for our generation.
Sign our Youth Employment Petition now.
This is up to us. We can only blame ourselves if we don’t step up.
Biko
In one of his first appearances since returning to the Center for American Progress, senior fellow Van Jones told attendees of the CAP-Apollo Alliance conference, “Picking a Winner: How to Make the U.S. a Leader in the Clean Energy Economy,” that we now know that the clean energy economy is coming. There are “three key questions that need to be addressed” about the emerging clean energy economy, Jones said, that need to be addressed, but only two already have a “robust policy discussion.
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Lots of people hate on Lil Boosie, as he is obviously far from perfect. But few MCs today are able to capture the pain of urban millennials better than Boosie Boo! Check out the first “8 Bars” of his song “You Don’t Know My Struggle.” Hopefully, he will you use his art to get his life back together when he gets out of jail.
We started off in the backyard,
I’m that boy,
Hate to lose,
if I lose, yo can get bruised,
I’m that hard.
Life starts from a bad memory.
Daddy loved drugs.
Can’t take this from him,
He loved girls.
Went from neighborhood jackas.
To neighborhood stackas
I-10 ridaz,
to I-10 traffickas.
Imagine us in that bottom on that PCP.
Walkin’ to school wit a tool,
who gon’ beef wit me.
A Pittsburgh teenager at the center of a racially charged police brutality investigation celebrated with his family Thursday after a judge dismissed charges from his arrest by officers he says beat him.
“This proves I was telling the truth. I didn’t want people to look at me negatively,” Jordan Miles, 18, said after a contentious hearing in Pittsburgh Municipal Court. “They asked me, ‘Where’s your gun, money and drugs?’ All kinds of thoughts went through my head. I thought I was going to get robbed.”im during an arrest on January 12th, 2010, finally faced Magisterial District Judge Oscar Petite Jr. jacked via the Pittsburgh Tribune
Onehood’s DJ Paradise was on the scene and captured the video above. Check Paradise’s blog here.
Over the last year or so, there have been more and more groups claiming that they work with noncollege youth. This is sort of bitter sweet for me. While the need in this community is tremendous and there is more than enough work to go around, the truth is that not all groups are created equal.
Many of the groups claiming to serve noncollege youth have absolutely no business mobilizing poor communities. But because of their positional power, or because of their relationship to beltway insiders, they often times get resources to do this very tough and often times unrewarding work, when they should be deferring to other organizations.
So, in an effort to clear the air, and serve low income communities, I have a decided to drop this list of the “Top 5 Ways to Know You’re Not Really Working With Noncollege Youth.”
Enjoy.
#1 You don’t have a hood or barrio pass!
Let’s keep it real, not every group has what it takes to canvass in low income communities. There is a real art and science to mobilizing voters in low income neighborhoods. Trust me, you can’t just pop up in a neighborhood and get respect. You have to earn it. And word to John Mayer, hood passes aren’t earned easily.
#2 You are more about promoting your organization than the community!
Lot’s of groups spend way more of their resources on branding and visibility than mobilizing their constituents. That works for some constituencies, but to really get folks from noncollege communities to turn out, you have to really be about organizing. Low income communities only respond when they see a real commitment to organizing and local leadership development. You can’t move folks with a bumper sticker or t-shirt.
It’s okay, most organizations do it. Heck, LYVEF has even had to close up a shop or two when money has gotten tight. But that can’t be your M.O. Noncollege communities need deep, long term investments. You can’t get the respect you need to really mobilize people if you are only in town every other year. Community folks know when organizations aren’t in it for the long haul.
#4 Your whole strategy focuses on online work!
Word to the New Organizing Institute, I love online organizers. But there is no way that you can mobilize noncollege folks if you only use an online strategy. (Well, unless you are Worldstarhiphop.com.) Low income folks need to be able to look you in your eyes to see if you are legimiate. Online organizing is a great tactic, but it CANNOT be the end all be all of your strategy.
#5 You’re feeling a little intimidated by this article.
It’s ok. I’m here to help. As I said above, there is more than enough work to be done in this community. If you really want to serve low income communities, come holla at me. I am more than willing to connect you to a group in your city or region that is doing amazing work. Trust me, they exist.
BTW, here’s a link to our Number’s Don’t Lie–Census 2010 mixtape. Check it out, and download it for free!!!
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