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March 6, 2010 in Featured, Opinion, technology by Glen

The television reality show America’s Best Dance Crew is a competitive series that is climbing the charts in popularity for best dance show. This show has great crews from all over the United States, and most recently Puerto Rico and Canada also. It captures the art of dance, music mixing, and costume design. The winner is all up to the citizens of the United States to vote for their favorite dancers and help them become America’s Best Dance Crew. The show has been running for four seasons and now going on the fifth season. This show has been known to be accurate when it comes to a winner being announced. However, for the first time, an error in the voting calculations has caused an uproar in America.

February 20, 2010 in Current Affairs, Discussion, Featured, Opinion by megangage

Winter is upon us in full swing and many expectant sports fanatics know what that means: the Winter Olympics. Many will tune in to NBC, the sole network with the rights to air the 2010 Olympics, to watch figure skating, downhill skiing and curling, as well as some of their other favorite snow-time sports; but among the snowboarding and hockey, there is a deeper issue plaguing this year’s festivities.

February 14, 2010 in Featured, smashcast, technology by Virgil

With all my other assignments done. I had pretty much nothing to do. Well I couldn’t just do nothing so Simon and I decided to mess with 3-D because,  why not?

February 13, 2010 in Featured, technology by Estefania

The new era of blogging has moved in and unpacked its bags. What is this blog era you might ask, well a couple months ago we had the chance to interview two bloggers from the Huffington Post, the top blog in the net, and they gave us a little debriefing. Watch the video to see our report!

January 17, 2010 in Featured, Social Change, Video by Virgil

The Smashcasters had an opportunity to meet with One Web Day’s Executive Director and produced this video about how they see the digital divide manifested in their communities and some strategies for overcoming it.

January 12, 2010 in Featured, Social Change, Video by Virgil

For 3 days in September of this year, Tides hosted its Momentum conference at the W hotel in San Francisco.  The basic gist behind momentum is that it ”brings together some of the world’s most innovative thinkers and dedicated activists to challenge, inspire, and energize each other.”

January 11, 2010 in Featured, Social Change, Video by megangage

In this day and age, where equality is the word of the year, can it be true that America is still holding on to the racist roots of its previous generations? Although it may be a hard fact to face, places, like Charleston, Mississippi, continue the abomination that is racial segregation. In this interview, we talk to two of the students from Charleston High School in Mississippi, where, believe it or not, they still hold segregated proms!

November 14, 2009 in Discussion, Featured, Opinion, Social Change by Estefania

Some people claim that racism in the U.S. has  dissolved over time, but recently it has come to our attention that there are still marks of racism being imprinted in our nation’s history. Up until last year, Charleston High School in Mississippi had been having two separate proms: the “white” prom and the “black” prom. In the movie “Prom Night in Mississippi” Paul Saltzman tells the story of how home town-native Morgan Freeman offers to pay for their 2008 prom, as long as it was a single-integrated prom.