In the conversation below, I interview Squeaky Moore and Ashley Shaunte, two aspiring filmmakers who’ve been able to make fatherless homes into a viral topic on the Internet. Their short public service video on the topic has drawn hundreds of thousands of viewers, primarily because the idea of being without a dad has such a profound emotional impact on us all.
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In this video, Dr. Wilmer Leon and I discuss the case of Rodney Stanberry, who sits in prison for an attempted murder that I believe he did not commit. Please visit FreeRodneyStanberry.com in order to join the growing coalition that is fighting for Rodney’s case to be investigated again.
Much of the evidence in Rodney’s case has not held up and at the very least, all evidence should be reconsidered before we ruin a person’s life by keeping them locked away in prison. The problem for Rodney is that his case is not a death penalty or DNA case, leaving him out of the reach of many liberal civil liberties groups. But the fact remains that mass incarceration is a deep and insidious threat to the black community and must be dealt with using large-scale measures that serve to redefine what justice means in America.
The video is below:
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Donald Trump and Barack Obama will be in the same room tonight. The White House Correspondents dinner has Trump on the guest list, with President Obama delivering a stand up routine that pokes fun at himself and his presidency. While almost no topics are off limits during the dinner, Trump doesn’t expect the president to talk about him.
"I wouldn't think [Obama] would address me" during his speech, Trump said to ABC News.
Watch as YBW’s Eshe White interviews a former football star about the realities of playing in the NFL
BOSTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's father was forced to leave Harvard University before completing his Ph.D. in economics because the school was concerned about his personal life and finances, according to newly public immigration records.
Harvard had asked the Immigration and Naturalization Service to delay a request by Barack Hussein Obama Sr. to extend his stay in the U.S., "until they decided what action they could take in order to get rid of him," immigration official M.F. McKeon wrote in a June 1964 memo.
By Dr. Boyce Watkins, Your Black World – the picture above (left) is from the press conference held for Father Pfleger in Chicago
I went to the press conference being held on behalf of Father Michael Pfleger, the respected Catholic Priest on the Southside of Chicago. In case you don’t know, Father Pfleger’s church, St. Sabina, is a predominantly black church and his members love him. He has served the South Side of Chicago with the kind of courage only shown by a true spiritual soldier. He has stood strong with mothers as their sons have died and has put himself in the middle of nearly every kind of devastation that plagues inner cities across America.
by Dr. Boyce Watkins, YourBlackWorld.com – Scholarship in Action
I had to keep myself from getting sick when I turned on the TV this morning to see some random people walking down the street wearing clothes too expensive for nearly all of my friends to afford. I wondered why the world has become captivated and frozen over such a disgusting exercise of extravagance. So, I thought I would list at least four of the reasons that I won’t be watching the royal wedding:
1) Because I simply don’t care and neither do most of the people reading this article. It’s one wedding, for one couple across the world. I honestly just don’t get it.
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