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Norman Lewis was an influential Harlem painter whose work helped innovate the abstract expressionist style he was best known for. Lewis didn’t achieve mainstream fame…

By now, everyone knows the story of how a teenager in a South Carolina classroom was pulled out of a chair onto the floor by…

The dismal education statistics for young Black men are all too familiar, especially in cities like Camden, New Jersey, where poverty, crime and poor access to…

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One summer about a million years ago, when I was 18, I went to community college to take some classes to transfer back to the university…

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When Ted Gustus was a boy, he found his mother dead, lying on the floor of their railroad flat in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant. In the background,…

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  As a mentor of African-American male youth in the community, one of the things I’m constantly looking for is information and resources. But whether…

  10 year Harlem Globetrotter veteran Kevin “Special K” Daley stopped by the Tom Joyner Morning Show about life after his historic basketball career and…

Last week, the United States Department of Labor released new jobs numbers for September. While Black unemployment decreased slightly, there has been growth in job…

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Had to dig deep on this one. While giving thought to this year so far, I thought about the number of controversies surrounding Black men,…

In February, President Barack Obama announced an initiative to respond to the economic, employment, and educational disparities that young men of color face as they enter…

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Thanks to the Internet, there’s no shortage of graphic images that can illustrate almost any statistic that we can come up with. So lucky for…

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  These days the “Twitterverse” is inescapable and who can believe that just a decade ago the term “tweet” was still associated with birds. But…