By Michele Pierini Tommy Fischer, 19, finished high school last year by taking classes electronically over the Internet. Born to a single teen mother, Fischer has no plans for further education due to disinterest. He has had several legal troubles including traffic violations, alleged underage drinking, and even seizure of his pet monkey. Recently while … Continue reading
….. some of that money back, or living wage jobs– your call! source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/10450811/Youth-unemployment-could-tear-Europe-apart-warns-WEF.html?fb Continue reading
…… during times of severe national crisis? (trigger warning: photos of natural disaster) Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, 2005 “We looted a store because we had no food and we had to do something,” Wood told AFP outside their French Quarter hotel while waiting for a ride to nearby Baton Rouge.” “Post-Katrina Looters: The Hungry, The … Continue reading
This video was produced by the awesome organization, Southerners on New Ground (Song), a southern based LGBTQ group that organizers around immigration reform. This video is a quick jump into the intersections of queerness and citizenship, it also brings a critique to what is racialized (read:demonized,stereotyped) citizen status. Continue reading
Diego Luna, Director of the new Cesar Chavez biopic, finally released a teaser trailer. Michael Peña plays the labor leader and America Ferrera, his wife. Dolores Huerta is portrayed by, Afrolatina, Rosario Dawson. It’s exciting to have people of color portray characters other than gangsters or maids in a mainstream Hollywood feature. The significance of … Continue reading
“Any kind of revolution besides the social revolution” Propaganda is a documentary about Western imperialism and the consuming culture that sustains it. Made by New Zealanders, the film is 1:35 minutes long and features clippings of Americans shopping, Americans eating, American shopping, Americans eating, and outright violence. The film also does an exceptional job at showing … Continue reading
Hey Friends, (pick your afro daddy, ‘cuz its flat on one side…) Today, the news broke out that Lauryn Hill will be incarcerated for at least three months for not paying her back taxes. This battle between her and the state has been a reoccurring issue that many believe to be the cause of her signing to … Continue reading
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I don’t know when that single or video will come out, but SpaceGhostPurrp just released a video for his single “Tha Black God” of his latest mixtape God of Black Vol. 1– which features a host of other artists from his Raider Klan movement. This single should also be re-released on his label (4AD, yas … Continue reading
Alphabetizando by Elizabeth Catlett Nena World is a digital magazine, created and curated, by young womyn of color. Continue reading
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