Innocent people, mostly minorities, are getting arrested because police officers need to meet quotas. This has become an issue in the 41st precinct in the Bronx and probably many other areas not brought to media attention. Watch this video as Adil Polanco, a former 41st-precinct NYPD officer, uncovers what really goes on behind the system and how it’s all a numbers game.

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A self-appointed neighborhood watch captain shot and killed an innocent 17-year-old Black boy making his way home on a rainy night. This story has been going viral on the Internet and here on NewsOne. His family shares their reactions on the phone recordings of the event and asks the public to take action to help arrest the killer. Is this a race issue as the story claims or just another tragic event?

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Scientists now claim that a weird fish-like creature called “Pikaia Gracilens” is our oldest ancestor! I really don’t believe that humans were born from fish. Do you?

I’m sure we are all familiar with the Jim Crow Laws. Well, did you know that “a Black student is three and a half times more likely to be kicked out of school than his or her white peers”? Public schools just may be the new Jim Crow. Check out the details.

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This 60-year-old Ohio man punches, suffocates, and stomps his girlfriend, causing one of her breast implants to explode! What is up with all this domestic violence? What do you think?

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Republican Rick Santorum calls President Obama a “snob” for encouraging students to get a college education. Isn’t this a little hypocritical since he pushed to make college more affordable when he was a senator? Watch the video and tell us what you think.

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Who knew televisions could kill? A few incidents have happened around Chicago lately that centers on fallen televisions that have caused injuries and even death! What’s up with these kids and hazardous televisions?!

Three men get charged with ethnic intimidation for beating a Black man last April, when he was visiting a friend in West Bloomfield. That’s two years in prison for these racist criminals. Thoughts?

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How many times have you bypassed a scream or a suspicious act in your daily lives, thinking that somebody else probably heard or saw the act and will report it? Well, you’re letting crimes happen! This woman suffered 332 wounds, and after endless screaming, people who heard her still did not call the police. Check out this horrific story.

Do you have dreams about being a muscle man? We know the ladies wouldn’t complain. The nation’s top trainers spill the tricks of the trade to help you maximize muscle gain and strengthen yourself from head to toe. Will you try out some of these tricks?

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But with BlackPlanet.com and Monster’s partnership for diversity jobs, many African Americans have been able to get in touch with companies who are looking for different faces and perspectives in their offices.

Monster, which has a diversity and inclusion section on their website, has been committed to not only serving minorities, but all Americans. Within the jobs section on BlackPlanet.com, you will find job listings from Monster in all fields that are looking specifically for diverse candidates.

Click here to see Monster’s diversity job openings on BlackPlanet.com

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The Intellects DO gather at BlackPlanet! To make it easier for you to have access and join some of the groups here, I’ve given you 5 links to active groups that want engaging conversation on various topics. Enjoy and if you know or have any groups you’d like to add to this, just leave it in the comment section.

A Think Tank for US

My Intellectual Mind

BlackPlanetRising

African American Business Network

NewsOneWashingtonWatch

Smart & Educated Black women

The group boasts more than 40,000 members, which makes sense since the group is catering to smart and educated Black women.

Black Planet Journalists

Having 30,000 plus BP members proves that we have many people who have an interest in writing, so why not check them out?

Black History As Told By Us

This is a group for all to visit. Where youth and elders can come together to learn about some of the many amazing black figures as told by you. Tell us what you know and make us proud. Add on to others insights

Black Teachers of Black Planet United

This group is designed for BlackPlanet’s Education Professionals. Here we can discuss our workday, vent, provide advice, share lesson plans, discuss policy changes and education related topics. The intended audience is classroom teachers, aspiring teachers, parents and citizenry concerned with solutions.

Do you have a group that should be featured? If so, contact me!

On Facebook:

If not one of the 400 + million, join Facebook at www.facebook.com.  It’s free. Once logged in, on the left side of your Facebook homepage, click Events.

Once you’re at the Events screen, click Create an Event in the upper right corner.

From here, follow the steps provided by Facebook. Fill in your the name, time, date, and address of your event, and select the privacy level. Choose “open” for events you want any and everyone to be able to see and invite others to, choose “closed” if you want control over who gets invited, and choose “secret” for events you don’t want to show up in people’s profiles (such as surprise parties).

After you complete Step 1, you can add details to the event page such as a photo and a description. You can also determine what features will appear on the page, such as guest list, wall, or a photo album.

After saving your details, you’ll be taken to a screen that will let you choose which of your friends to invite to your event, and then you can preview your event page before posting it.

Once the page is completed, you can continue to use it to send updates and other messages to all invited guests so that they always have the latest information.

Inspired? To see the Event Page for the NJ Student Walk-Out, click here.

On BlackPlanet:

Bulletins are a great way to let all of your friends on BP know about upcoming events you’re planning, and how they can get involved. Posts on your bulletin board are easy to create, and they get blasted out to all of your contacts on the network. Here’s how to post a bulletin:

On the left side of your BlackPlanet homepage, click “Bulletin Board.”

When you reach the Bulletin Board main page, click the blue “Post A Bulletin” button.

From there, all you have to do is input the event information that you want to reach all of your friends. You can include an event description, the date, time, place, and anything else guests will need to know.

After you input the information, click “Post Bulletin” and all of your friends will instantly receive your update!

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From the Wall Street Journal:

Omar Wasow knew that the transition from Internet executive to graduate student at the age of 35 would be a dramatic one, and so in a symbolic break from his old life, he lopped off the two feet of dreadlocks he had been growing since he was a teenager.

That was 2005, when Mr. Wasow was the executive director of BlackPlanet.com, a social networking site that he founded seven years earlier and turned into the most popular African-American Web site at the time. Previously, he had developed Web sites for the New Yorker and Consumer Reports magazines.

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His hair, good looks and penchant for Italian suits helped him stand out in the New York’s Silicon Alley from the late 1990s until he left in 2005. He appeared frequently on television as a technology pundit, most famously on the Oprah Winfrey Show when he taught the talk-show host how to use the Internet in 2000. That same year, People magazine named him the “Sexiest Internet Executive.” Mr. Wasow’s business acumen and ability to translate complex ideas to a general audience earned him quasi-celebrity status and an annual six-figure income.

So it surprised many in the technology world when he decided to resign his leadership position at Community Connect Inc., BlackPlanet’s parent company (which was later sold for $38 million in 2008), and move to Cambridge, Mass., to pursue a Ph.D. in African-American studies and government at Harvard University.

His transformation began on the drive to the airport after delivering a speech at a technology conference. “I realized that just giving speeches wasn’t enough,” Mr. Wasow says. “I wanted to write prose, not just PowerPoint. I wanted to be held accountable for my ideas, not just applauded. I wanted to develop a level of mastery over some body of knowledge rather than just be a mile-wide and an inch-deep.”

Until his mid-30s, Mr. Wasow, whose father, uncle and grandfather were all professors, had rebelled against the idea of teaching and instead aimed to be a socially conscious entrepreneur.

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The African American Business Network (AABN), has been established to cultivate ideas and information into a plan that can be used as a plan of operation for our own (African American) Economic Empowerment. Please join our group and read our announcement and forums.

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InteractiveOne, LLC, The Digital Connection for Black America and the digital division of Radio One, Inc. the largest African American multimedia company, today announced the launch of BlackPlanet Rising (www.blackplanetrising.com), the first comprehensive platform to provide tools, information and connections for African Americans to give back their time and resources to the community.  Interactive One will seek to activate African Americans through a broad cross-platform outreach program leveraging the Radio One stations, and its own robust online platform which reaches more than nine million monthly unique visitors and includes the original social networking site, BlackPlanet.com.

“This is the first platform that allows African Americans to connect around services for and by the community,” says Maria Weaver Watson, who as head of marketing oversees the community outreach program for Interactive One. “It also allows organizations, communities and individuals to tap into the largest African American audience across our various platforms to seek volunteers, board members, employees, and donations.”

In order to provide users with a vast number of volunteer opportunities that reflect their geographic location, skills, and areas of interest, BlackPlanet Rising has partnered with VolunteerMatch one of the Web’s most popular volunteer network (www.volunteermatch.org) with more than 68,000 nonprofit organizations to help Americans easily find where and how they can give back.  This will enable users to go onto the site, enter their zip code, skills and interests, including education, public service, etc., and secure a list of active local volunteering opportunities.

“Times are tough in our communities, but it’s clear that more Americans than ever want to help solve local problems. We’ve already seen an increase of more than 12% in community service activity this year alone,” said Robert Rosenthal, Director of Communications of VolunteerMatch.

“Our hope is that we are giving a community that is inspired to contribute the tools and information to make an impact on the causes that are most important to them,” said Tom Newman, President of Interactive One. “Community service is at the heart of Radio One’s mission and history and we felt that in these challenging economic times we needed to be front and center as leaders.  I am very excited to see how BlackPlanet Rising will mobilize the community further by introducing and encouraging acts of service and social change online.  There is really nothing out there like this.”

Additionally, BlackPlanet Rising will put a strong emphasis in the area of education by partnering with DonorsChoose.org, a non-profit website that connects users to public schools in need. This provides BlackPlanet Rising’s community with the chance to help build the next generation of future leaders, and provide funds to support critical resources, including books, computers, supplies, field trips, and much more. The user chooses an educational project written by a public school teacher to support and DonorsChoose.org delivers materials directly to the school.  In return, the user receives photos and thank you notes from the teacher and students whose lives were impacted.

“We are grateful that BlackPlanet Rising has chosen to highlight the importance of education and offer their users the opportunity to give back to their local schools and students,” said Yaritza Olmeda, East Region Associate Director, of DonorsChoose.org.

Other highlights of the site will include the Riser of the Month, which will profile individuals who have done exceptional work and made a difference in their community; a News section to provide briefs on community service; and an Upcoming Events section to highlight large scale and regional events that encourage users to get involved.  BlackPlanet.com will host the BlackPlanet Rising group for members to share stories, insights and personal recommendations for community involvement.