Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Prisons: America’s New System of Slavery

by Rania Khalek

There is one group of American workers so disenfranchised that corporations are able to get away with paying them wages that rival those of third-world sweatshops. These laborers have been legally stripped of their political, economic and social rights and ultimately relegated to second-class citizens. They are banned from unionizing, violently silenced from speaking out and forced to work for little to no wages. This marginalization renders them practically invisible, as they are kept hidden from society with no available recourse to improve their circumstances or change their plight.

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GoodGuyNews: Jay-Z Opens Restaurant For Charity…

by: PatriceJohnson, Your Black World

GoodGuyNews…

Jay-Z is scheduled to open a restaurant in London to grant young people with jobs and some of the profits will go to charity. His business partner in this venture will be England soccer player, Ashley Cole.

"It'll be the hottest place in town," says Jay-Z.

Jobs will be given to students of less fortunate backgrounds.

Good Job Jay! This is an amazing idea.

Death of the Auto-Coon: Intelligent Black People are Dangerous

Dangerous Negro, a company founded by black male graduates of some of the nation’s leading business schools (Harvard for one), stands against the notion that black men and black women are meant to be ignorant, club-hoppin, bottle-poppin, gun-tottin, shucking and jiving buffoons.  Our greatest destiny is not to relegate ourselves for the entertainment of others, but to instead seek a purpose that is worthy of the greatness and beauty of being black.

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