What happens when Jesse Jackson, Q-Tip, dream hampton, ?uestlove and KRS-One join forces with writer Tricia Rose, Estelle and Toure to discuss the role of hip hop in our communities? The folks at intelligence Squared and Google are at it again with their newest “Versus” debate.
“I am, I was, and I will always be a catalyst for change,” said Professor Anita Hill, paraphrasing Shirley Chisholm last week at the Brooklyn Historical Society. Hill was honored as Woman of the Decade along with nine other “Justice Warriors” at Girls for Gender Equity’s (GGE) 10th anniversary celebration.
Former International Monetary Fund president and French political hopeful Dominique Strauss-Kahn is back in the news after being accused of attempted rape by New York City hotel maid Nafissatou Diallo in 2011.
Parlour columnist Nakia D. Hansen checks out the New York City Reproductive Justice conference and decides to take a better look at herself as an ally. Here’s how you can join her.
A Republican-backed ‘Super PAC’ is considers hitting below the belt of sanity to defeat Barack Obama.
Cruising the web this morning, folks like Gawker writer Rich Juzwiak are still talking about Jay-Z’s support of gay marriage.
George Zimmerman says he’s sorry for shooting down Trayvon Martin at today’s bail hearing, do you believe him?
