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YO!STAFF HEAD STRAIGHT TO DENVER DNC! |
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on August 25, 2008 at 3:40 PM
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After a rough week of political commentary blogs and concert going - Donny Lumpkins and Eming Piansay
Find themselves Smack Dab in the middle of the DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION - DNC ... But is Denver ready for what we're bringing???
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Pumped, Nervous and Zen: Donny in Denver |
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on August 25, 2008 at 3:22 PM
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Blog, Donny Lumpkins,
YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia, Aug 25, 2008
The plane began to descend in to Denver, rocking back and forth like a giant metal feather. Out the window was the quilt of another American state: Colorado.
I’ve been through this place before in my younger years, riding on Greyhound bus cross-country. In the couple hours I spent here I can’t remember much. I remember mountains in the distance, a subway and a grabber video game at the bus station that took my last quarters.
This time around I'm going to the Democratic National Convention. People tell me it will be a great couple of days. I would say I was excited but I kind feel like I ate a bunch of caterpillars a few days ago and now their full-grown butterfly’s reeking havoc on my poor stomach. This is the biggest thing I’ve ever been to, let alone covered and I want to do a good job.
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Youth Risk it all for 'Change' This Election Season |
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on August 25, 2008 at 3:09 PM
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Blog, Eming Piansay,
YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia, Aug 25, 2008
During Bill Clinton’s time in the White House, the only type of voting I took part in was the youth voting that happened through the television network Nickelodeon. I’m a little ashamed to say I actually thought I was voting for the next President of the free world. But now that I think about it, I don’t think anyone would let a 4th grader near a legitimate voting booth whose highlights of the week included watching Power Rangers and chocolate pudding. But I think it speaks a lot in the justification that young people do care who is running their country and some do actually want to have something to do with the process – even if the way they vote is purely symbolic.
Twelve years later I’m standing at the peak of an election process that has been propelled forward by the young generation of voters.
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Expensive Clothing Improves Your Health and Kills Universal Health Care |
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on August 11, 2008 at 3:28 PM
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Between shopping for clothing that will make me super healthy and sitting on the couch all day watching a marathon of the TV show Scrubs, I’d choose the latter. I like my clothing simple, cheap and most importantly comfortable. The last thing I need is clothing that requires me figure to out which t-shirt prevents dengue fever.
But researchers are on a mission, a mission to make everyday clothing detectors of illnesses and disease.
In trial tests of the so-called ‘smart clothing’, the health conscious attire can ward off bugs, cigarette smoke, monitor ones heart rate and stop the common cold, which strangely enough doesn’t require the wearer to wash the outfit – which I think negates the whole purpose of avoiding the flu in the first place.
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Dakar and New Orleans -- "Beaucoup en Commun" |
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on August 11, 2008 at 2:26 PM
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Editor's Note: There are two major events that have origins in this region of West Africa that directly affect the Gulf Coast of the United States -- slavery and hurricane formation. Pendarvis Harshaw, 21, is a contributing content producer for YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia and a freelance journalist.
WASHINGTON D.C. -- I spent my spring break 2007 helping to rebuild New Orleans. This year I traveled to Senegal and its capital city, Dakar. The similarities between the two cities werebeautifully and devastatingly obvious.
Lead by Dr. Gregory Jenkins, Howard University's physics department chair, a group of Howard University's brightest, including myself, and one student from the University of Michigan, spent spring break rebuilding homes, studying the effects government, capitalism, and global warming had on New Orleans in the aftermath of Katrina.
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YO! Bloggers Respond to New Yorker Cover |
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on July 17, 2008 at 10:47 AM
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Blogs, Jazmyne Young and Donny Lumpkins,
YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia, Jul 16, 2008
From Bunny to Dinosaurs
In my world, things pertaining to the upcoming Presidential election are about as up in the air as a fluffy cloud turning from a bunny to a dinosaur right before your eyes. Yet, you know what they say, in every bizarre cloud is bizarre silver lining.
For me that bizarre silver lining is the most recent New Yorker cover with cartoon versions of Barack and Michelle Obama doing the now infamous “Fist bump.” It portrays Barack dressed in a turban and sandals and an afro-ed Michelle in boots and army pants with an AK-47 hanging off of her shoulder padded arms.
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Now that Castro's Gone, What's Up with the Embargo? |
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on June 10, 2008 at 5:54 PM
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I first learned of America's embargo on Cuba at Berkeley High during aCultural Connectionsworkshop in the 12th grade. Before that moment, my thoughts about Cuba consisted of light skinned actors from New York and Ricky Ricardo fromI Love Lucy. It's been almost five years since I visited Cuba. Officially, I was commissioned to cover the hip hop conference in Havana, unofficially it was my first time out of the country and I was immersed in a geopolitical history lesson I was not at all prepared to handle. ... |
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