Category: Life
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New Educational Leaders: Mimi Valdes & Pharrell Williams’ Kidult Youth Enterprise
As one half of the legendary production tandem, The Neptunes, Pharrell Williams has experienced numerous triumphs in his career. He has worked with some of the biggest names in the music industry today, but his work outside of the musical arena is where his legacy will be forever defined. His other non-musical ventures include the…
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Poet Taalam Acey Evalutes Dr. Laura’s N-Word Rant & Violent Culture In Baltimore [Video]
Popular New Jersey poet Taalam Acey gives his views on the use of the N-word – and Dr. Laura Schlessinger’s controversial repeated use of it in a recent rant – in the video below. He also talks about the “violent culture” in the city of Baltimore, pointing his attention to possible reasons for the increase…
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BP In Deep Water: A Bird’s-Eye View Of The Oil Spill
For the past four months, a grandiose ecological problem exists in the waters located in the Gulf of Mexico. On April 20, 2010, the catastrophic Deepwater Horizon oil spill took place in the Gulf of Mexico. British Petroleum (BP) has claimed responsibility for this environmental disaster, but has blamed Transocean Ltd. and Halliburton for their…
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Jokes Aside: Money, Race and Reality
Jokes Aside: Money, Race and Reality By dmt. “I say fuck the police, thats how I treat em We buy our way out of jail, but we can’t buy freedom We’ll buy a lot of clothes when we don’t really need em Things we buy to cover up what’s inside Cause they make us hate…