-
New Study: Black women’s hair loss tied to weaving
Very tight braiding or weaving may be linked to a permanent type of hair loss that affects many African American women, according to a U.S. study.
-
Ashley Judd Calls Hip-Hop a ‘Rape Culture,’ ?uestlove responds
“I believe that the social construction of gender, the cultural beliefs and practices that divide the sexes and institutionalize and normalize the unequal treatment of girls and women and most nefariously, incessantly sexualize girls and women, is the root cause of poverty and suffering around the world.”
-
First Black man to walk in space wants others to follow in his footsteps
He urges black youngsters to think about space-related careers. “They often want to aspire to be athletes or rappers but the best thing to enable one to take care of their family and themselves is education.”
-
NAACP release new report: ‘Misplaced Priorities: Over Incarcerate, Under Educate’
Misplaced Priorities tracks the steady shift of state funds away from education and toward the criminal justice system.
-
Andrew Young and MLK III to launch broadcast TV network for African Americans
The network, which plans to debut this fall, will go after blacks in the 25-54 demographic becoming the first over-the-air broadcast network to do so.
-
Blacks seek new political power in once-white suburbs
With more blacks moving from city to suburb, the National Urban League says it is worried states may improperly seek to stem the political clout of African-Americans as they spread into historically white districts.
-
Racism Within Race
Under the term African American, there is a system of separation that involves numerous shades of ‘”Black.”
-
New smartphone app promotes voyeurism
“Color” is a location-based, photo-sharing app that takes voyeurism to post-Twitter level by letting users see all of the photos that are being taken by strangers who happen to be within a 150-foot radius of the user’s smartphone.