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(ynetnews.com) The president of one of America's best known African-American colleges has added her voice to the chorus of condemnations coming from the US of the academic boycott against Israel being waged by Britain's main academic union, the University College Union (UCU). In a letter sent this week to an American-Jewish leader, Marvalene Hughes said: "It has come to my attention that an effort is underway to boycott Israeli academics. We ...More

(newsday.com) Not many entrepreneurs are told to do their homework before they devote time to their business. But that's the rule laid down by the parents of Leanna Archer, who at the age of 11 owns Leanna's Inc., a Central Islip mail-order and on-line business that sells hair-care products. Leanna is the persistent entrepreneur, according to her dad, Gregory. Since the age of eight she had bugged her parents about selling a ...More

(washingtonpost.com) Prince George's, a county that underwent a seismic population shift a generation ago as it became the nation's wealthiest majority-black suburb, might be on the cusp of another demographic change. In the past decade, Prince George's has become a destination for many working-class and foreign-born families because of its relatively affordable housing. At the same time, thousands of middle-class people, many of them African American, have left for neighboring counties ...More

From EURweb.com "As far as the 'Hot Ghetto Mess' issue, [BET President/CEO Debra Lee] has got the same problem that I had in that BET, for all practical purposes, is the only preeminent voice for African Americans in media and because of that it is given a greater responsibility and obligation by certain people that BET has to be a little bit 'holier than thou,'" Johnson said. "We'll let Jerry Springer ...More

Side One Well after all the snap commentaries and protests and threats of boycotts the night finally came for the show that would doom ALL Black people back to the days when Chicken George roamed the plantation. The show was a mixture of street interviews, off the wall home videos highlighted by brief comments by host Charlie Murphy. The guy who conducted the street interviews asked questions such as "When did slavery ...More