16-Year-Old Chooses HBCU Over Harvard & More - Around the Web

Why This FAMU Freshman Chose an HBCU Over Harvard Ralph Jones Jr., a 16-year-old freshman at Florida A&M University has received national attention in recent days for passing up opportunities at the 45 other schools that accepted him. (The Root)

Erykah Badu Sounds Off On R&B Artists Gone Pop Erykah Badu has long been critical of the current state of Black music. This week, after a seemingly bad listen to a local hip hop station, the 39 year-old soul singer took to her Twitter account to tweet her distaste with R&B artists and rappers gone pop. (Clutch Magazine)

The Foreign Exchange Release New Album & Documentary Phonte and Nicolay of the Foreign Exchange dropped their third album, Authenticity, this week. In celebration of the album's release, they have also released a three-part documentary online. (The Urban Daily) In the Age of a Black President, Race Relations Are Getting Worse What a difference a year makes. Remember July 2009? Then, Americans split along racial lines about whether they believed Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates was arrested due to racial profiling.
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