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Daily Archives: March 2, 2011

What we need is our 40 acres and a mule!

In 1910 there were over 1 million African-American farmers, and today there are fewer than 17,000. Now, an emerging movement is sweeping across urban areas to reclaim abandoned lots, under-serviced public parks and vacant lots to grow fresh food for the people.

Revolutionary and still grindin’: an interview wit’ Stic.man of dead prez

The legendary rap group dead prez will be coming to the Bay Area to perform at Yoshi’s in San Francisco this Friday, March 4. Their free mixtape, “Revolutionary But Gangsta Grillz,” was one of the dopest albums dropped in 2010.

I can afford college!

March 2 is the deadline for new and returning community college students to apply for a Cal Grant for the 2011-2012 academic year. Cal Grant awards of up to $1,551 can be used to help students pay for fees, books, supplies and sometimes even rent while attending a California community college.

Black unemployment sparks chorus of discontent

What would happen if 34.5 percent of White men did not have jobs? According to new U.S. Bureau of Labor statistics, joblessness for 16-to-24-year-old Black men has reached Great Depression proportions – more than three times the rate for the general U.S. population. Some African Americans are asking: “Will it take a revolution to spark economic change in Black America?” “All eyes are on the uprisings playing out in Egypt and Tunisia, yet America systematically turns a blind eye to the oppression in its own backyard.”