By Rochelle Riley Article Reprint Donovan Colquitt is a mechanical engineering student at the University of Michigan. He got there without costing his parents or stepparents a dime.
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How To Date Casually Without Hurting Anyone
By: Alana Massey Article Reprint So, you’ve decided to start dating. But instead of diving headlong into a committed monogamous partnership—or one of those polyamorous ones that’s really more about booty-calling whoever’s around—you’re going to
Read morePhotos of Hip Hop Past Now on Display at The Museum of the City of New York
BTN STAFF Photographer Joe Conzo wants people to know the history behind Hip Hop music. He started to document the culture and the people behind it in the late 70’s. Now he and fellow photographers
Read moreThe Goodman’s Willa Taylor explains why playwright August Wilson matters
By Aimee Levitt Article Reprint This spring, the Goodman Theatre is paying tribute to the playwright August Wilson, who died ten years ago when he was just 60, with a citywide celebration, including discussions, symposia,
Read moreNew book reveals how American schools and prisons conspire to disenfranchise black Americans
ARTICLE SUBMISSION The Chains of Black America: The Hammer of the Police, The Anvil of the Schools by Michael Holzman, is a description of how two great institutions of American government – the education and criminal
Read moreTop Story (04/05/14) >>> ROLLING STONE: ‘We would like to apologize to our readers and to all of those who were damaged by our story’
BTN STAFF Today’s top story comes from Peter Jacobs of the Business Insider. He reported on the retraction of a story featured by the Rolling Stone. The story was on sexual assault at the University
Read moreLearn How to Make the “Most Expensive Cake in the World”
BTN STAFF Want to impressed your friends at the next party or gathering. Well Paige Russell has released a stet-by-step video on how to make a 24 Carrot Gold Cake. It looks like a brick
Read moreAlbum Review >>> Keith “Wildchild” Middleton: “Transitions”
By: Jarrod Horton Staff Writer The title of Keith “Wildchild” Middleton album Transitions, could also be a way to describe the relationship Hip Hop heads of my generation have with Rap music.
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