The Black Informant

(SI.com) Most recently, of course, Donovan McNabb, quarterback of the Philadelphia Eagles, declared that African-American quarterbacks suffer much more scrutiny than their white brethren. It was a particularly interesting observation coming from McNabb, because, if you recall, Rush Limbaugh resigned from ESPN four years ago for saying that the very same McNabb was overrated, inasmuch [...]

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Todd Lewan of the Associated Press the other day did a story on the Jena situation that clarified some of the misinformation surrounding the case. I first heard about some of this information by way of a fellow blogger pointing me to a piece written by Jason Whitlock who mentioned some of these findings in [...]

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YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — Jorge Castaneda knelt on a rocky ledge with a map of the Sierra Nevada spread before him.
“There aren’t street names,” the 18-year-old city kid said only half-jokingly just before his first backpacking trip. “How are we supposed to read these maps?”
Castaneda was with a group of young men from [...]

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(smallbiztrends.com) Generation Y (25 and under) has grown up watching their parents go off to work every day, 40 – 60 hours per week, with fierce loyalty only to be downsized, outsourced, or laid off in their 40’s and 50’s.
This reality has the 20-somethings with a different mindset from previous generations. We do not want [...]

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(radioink.com) Urban radio remains the best way to reach black consumers, according to a new presentation by ROI Media Solutions based on Arbitron Portable People Meter data. In Philadelphia, more than 91 percent of black listeners 12 and older listened to at least one of the market’s five Urban-oriented stations over the course of a [...]

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