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JUSTICE FOR RENISHA: From No Arrest to a Guilty Verdict

When 19-year-old Renisha McBride was shot in the face after knocking on a White man's door in suburban Detroit, I tweeted that her ...

By dream hamptonAugust 7, 20140

Diet/Nutrition

Our Children Have More to Lose if We Don’t Change the Way We Eat

My fighter of a father survived a massive stroke but lost his life to a heart attack. He was in his early sixties. My ...

By dream hamptonMarch 1, 20130

Family/Parenting

Our Mother/Daughter College Journey

This September my baby girl Isoke enters the eleventh grade. This isn’t about my utter shock at the light speed growth of baby ...

By dream hamptonSeptember 13, 20120

Celebrities & Notables

Remembering “Baby” Chris Lighty

This morning“Baby” Chris Lighty was found dead outside his Riverdale, Bronx apartment from an apparent self-inflicted gun wound. The news comes as a ...

By dream hamptonAugust 30, 20120

Entertainment

Nina Simone’s Daughter on Her Mother’s REAL Legacy

For many of us, Nina Simone is nothing less than a goddess. Her music informs our lives (see: “Wild is the Wind,” “Feelin’ ...

By dream hamptonAugust 22, 20120

News

Another Trayvon Martin #EVERY36HOURS:Report Reveals Spike in “Extrajudicial” Killings

Last week the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement released an exhaustively researched study, “The Report on the Extrajudicial Killing of Black People,” that proved that every 40 hours ...

By dream hamptonJuly 19, 20120

Mental Health

Depression: No More Guilt, No More Shame

Last year, the suicide of 15-year-old Siwe Monsanto inspired poet and mental health advocate Bassey Ikpi to begin the Siwe Project to reduce ...

By dream hamptonJuly 6, 20120

Lifestyle

Have Black Women, Will Travel

Since she was an infant, my daughter Isoke has been traveling. During her first year, I moved from Detroit to L.A. where I ...

By dream hamptonMay 11, 20120

News

Danny Glover Speaks on Mass Incarceration and Mumia

Today, former Black Panther Mumia Abu Jamal turns 58. Thirty of those years were spent on Death Row for the shooting death of ...

By dream hamptonApril 24, 20120

Entertainment

[INTERVIEW] It’s Estelle, Darlings!

The first time I heard Estelle’s voice, I was struck by her decisions; she had the intelligent phrasing of a jazz singer. Mind ...

By dream hamptonMarch 14, 20120

JUSTICE FOR RENISHA: From No Arrest to a Guilty Verdict

Our Children Have More to Lose if We Don’t Change the Way We Eat

Our Mother/Daughter College Journey

Remembering “Baby” Chris Lighty

Nina Simone’s Daughter on Her Mother’s REAL Legacy

Another Trayvon Martin #EVERY36HOURS:Report Reveals Spike in “Extrajudicial” Killings

Depression: No More Guilt, No More Shame

Have Black Women, Will Travel

Danny Glover Speaks on Mass Incarceration and Mumia

[INTERVIEW] It’s Estelle, Darlings!

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