Is the New Pope Latino? The Debate Continues
Is the new Pope Latino? That unanswered question continues to fuel the debate around Pope Francis’ ethnicity, since his election weeks ago. (Note: Argentina’s Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the former More...
Pol Urges Obama to Include African Diaspora in Immigration Debate
Conspicuously absent from the U.S. immigration reform debate are immigrants of the African Diaspora. The public debate exclusively focuses on Latino immigrants, and excludes the recognition of African immigrants More...
President Obama: Make a Speech in Chicago Addressing the Crisis of Gun Violence
BBN received in our inbox this petition urging President Barack Obama to stand up, and make a speech in Chicago addressing the crisis of gun violence. In 2012, there were 506 reported homicides in Chicago, the More...
NYPD’s ‘Operation Clean Halls’ Unconstitutional in Bronx. What Happens Citywide?
Yesterday, a Federal Judge in New York ruled ‘unconstitutional’ a key tactic, Operation Clean Halls, used by NYPD in its controversial ‘stop, question and frisk’ policy. In her ruling, U.S District More...
DEC 2012: Unemployment Rate Increased for Blacks, Latinos
In December the unemployment rate for Blacks was 14.0 percent, and for Latinos 9.6%, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics monthly Employment Situation report. For Blacks the rate increased from 13.2% in November; More...
Race Talk: It is Time For an Examination of ‘White in America’
Race Talk from My Stoop: I watched CNN‘s latest installment of “Black in America.” Over the course of the last four years, this series has explained and examined the experiences of Black people in More...
Prison Pipeline Conversation: Include Black and Latino Girls
Prison Pipeline Conversation: Black females represent the fastest growing segment of the juvenile justice population. Black (of the Diaspora) females also experienced the most dramatic rise in middle school suspension More...
Not Ready to die, but Wanting to die: Depression, Hip Hop and the death of Chris Lighty
“We need a very serious and healing discussion on depression for the Hip Hop generation. As one who suffers from depression myself, it breaks my heart to see those lose this very difficult and often lonely battle.” More...
Black Unemployment Rate 14.4% in June; Increase from 13.6% in May 2012
(UC Berkeley Labor Center) The unemployment rate for Blacks was 14.4 percent last month. This is according to the latest report on the nation’s employment situation released Friday morning by the Bureau of Labor More...
BBN Book Pick: ‘When I was Puerto Rican,’ by Esmeralda Santiago
BBN’s book pick for the month is “When I was Puerto Rican, by When I was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago, and our selection comes courtesy of BeingLatino.com. From the back cover: In When I More...