Stat of the Week

Tila Tequila: A sign that Hip Hop is dying.
Though music sales are down overall, rap sales slid a whopping 21 percent from 2005 to 2006, and for the first time in 12 years no rap album was among the top 10 sellers of the year.
The State Of . . . Hip Hop. This story [...]

Has Anyone Ever Dropped the N Bomb on You?

When I was about 8 years old, my father, my brother and I took a trip down to Pearsall County, Texas to visit the farm our ancestors were granted by the government just after slavery. Pearsall County is dry, arid land, that lies between the border of San Antonio and the Mexican border. [...]

Why I Hate Blacks

In the piece, which appeared in the February 23 edition of San Francisco-based AsianWeek, contributor Kenneth Eng lists reasons why he supports discrimination against blacks, writing, among other things, “I would argue that blacks are weak-willed. They are the only race that has been enslaved for 300 years.”
An official at the nationally circulated paper apologized [...]

Teaching Our Kids the Value of Ambition

Source: Washington Post
“By middle school, an age when children begin to more fully grasp racial and social differences, Alden started sitting with the other black students at lunch. Concerned about their potential isolation, Carpenter decided it was time to get more involved. She approached Tom Carter, who was teaching math at Dominion High, a year [...]