You may or may not have heard, but evidently tens of thousands of young people are expected to descend on Washington this Saturday in a march for sanity and/or fear. The March for Sanity and/or Fear devised by comedians Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert has been greeted with...

It was never about Barack Obama.

He said as much on the campaign trail. Time and time again he would remind the thousands that gathered to hear him speak that the election was not about him... a sentiment that's been lost over the last two years. This inconsistency, as...

Last week, Campus Progress made some waves with a submission to the Vote Again 2010 video contest, “Vote Again 2010: Do it for Bieber,” a satirical video intended to raise awareness about the importance of voting in the midterm elections.

Around the same time, on the other side...

The only thing more hilarious than our “Do It For Bieber” video (which we thought was pretty funny) was the media reaction to it.

Last week, Campus Progress released our submission to the Vote Again 2010 video contest, “Vote Again 2010: Do it for Bieber,”– and...

If you're like me, by now you've already cast a ballot, or twenty, for Justin Bieber who is up for Best New Artist at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards.

Yet the truth is that this isn't the only time Bieber needs you to vote for him, and next...

Another election cycle, another spiraling narrative about the persistently fickle youth vote, another misleading piece that mischaracterizes an entire generation before a single poll opens. We're not as shallow as the now infamous New York Times piece on the youth vote would allow you to believe were are.

Since 2000, young people have been hitting the polls in increasingly unprecedented numbers. Yes, since 2000. Despite what you may have heard, youth turnout wasn't an unexpected consequence of one election cycle or the byproduct of one person, party or policy.

This year, before a single polling place has...

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In 2006, I sat front row during a Jonathan Varvatos show at Bryant Park during New York's Fall Fashion Week. At the time I was working for a start-up modeling agency. I was one of very few people of color seated in the...

Campus Progress embarked on Mission Iller with one, and only one, objective: to inject young people into the conversation around the midterm elections.

The video doesn't promote any particular candidate or party. The video isn't even trying to convince young people to vote (that part comes...

Update: Campus Progress Responds to Critics.

Young people are not going to vote in the midterm elections ... or so we've been told. The narrative is set in stone and contemplating the alternative is little more than a futile exercise. I'd say it's just about...

You read right. Fed up. I had an opportunity to provide opening remarks for the 2010 Campus Progress National Conference. After two years of being told what I felt as a young person in politics-- I used the opportunity to set the record straight.

Passage below pretty...

We launched the search for students to keynote our national speaker contest with ambitious expectations -- ones grounded in the young people we encounter everyday. The response was overwhelming. Of the dozens of videos that poured in, we selected six to feature on HuffPost College.

Jamira Burley,...

Unexcited, disillusioned, frustrated, irritated, hopeless, crushed, cautiously optimistic, demoralized, confused....

The list of terms used to describe the political state of young America goes on, and on, and on. Yet despite the widespread assumption that we've collectively retreated, not a day goes by where a young person doesn't do something...

"Who holds politicians accountable for the statements they make on television? According to host David Gregory: Not Meet the Press," begins the new website and tool MeettheFacts.com.

The impetus for the site dates back to December when New York University journalism professor Jay Rosen took to his

Today, over 20 youth organizations representing millions of young people sent the following letter to Congress urging swift passage of health care reform and student aid through the reconciliation package.

To the Members of the United States Congress,

Over the last year, we've heard a lot of words tossed...

It's been widely reported that House and Senate leadership are likely to include President Obama's plan to overhaul the student lending system in the Health Care reconciliation package. The reform would put an end to subsidizing banks that originate student loans by having the federal government originate those...

How do you argue against equality? How do you argue against that which we hold to be self-evident? How do you argue against the premise of a nation's founding, the assurance that we are more complex than our classifications, that we are more alike than what makes us unique?
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Many have criticized President Obama for his lack of action on inner city violence. I find us all to be guilty.

Perhaps looking back might help us move forward. Below is a statement made by Maime Till-Mobley in the documentary The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till.

Emmett was...

Updated from my original posting on Global Grind.

Last Thursday, Russell Simmons announced his support of David Yassky for New York City Comptroller.

His endorsement made me think of something Barack Obama said in his Iowa victory speech ...

I know you didn't do this for me....

Ushers hustled down the isles, urging attendees to move their moon walking to their seats. Hundreds of people were packed in the room, lifting peace signs into the air and singing along to each song in a unified, thundering, voice. Many were crying, many more clung to photographs, and everyone...