by Candace | Mar 25, 2016 | News
We finally have a little bit of closure on the Flint water crisis. The Flint Water Advisory Task Force finished their investigation earlier this week and a report was delivered to Snyder Monday morning. The report blamed everyone from the Department of Environmental...
by Candace | Mar 25, 2016 | Blog
Chaos ensued a few months ago when Boko Haram extremist shot and bombed victims in Dalori, Nigeria. Eighty-six people were killed by native Islamic terrorist that have been terrorizing the state for quite some time now. One survivor described his terrifying...
by Candace | Mar 24, 2016 | Positivity
The DC teen’s Google doodle honoring African-American heritage has gone viral on the internet today. Akilah Johnson, a 10th-grade student from Washington, D.C. had the internet going nuts Monday. Akilah’s artwork had a breakthrough in Google’s top...
by Candace | Mar 24, 2016 | Positivity
For a person to turn their life from being an ex con to government lawyer, it takes a lot of courage and determination. Noah Kilroy went from a life of hustling and drug dealing to becoming a lawyer. He was raised in foster homes after being abandoned by his mother,...
by Candace | Mar 24, 2016 | Blog
In September of 2014, a South Carolina state trooper, Sean Groubert stopped Levar Jones at a gas station for a seatbelt violation. On Monday, the former officer pleaded guilty to shooting the black man for following orders. Consequently, he was fired and recently has...
by Candace | Mar 24, 2016 | Celebrities
Director Ava DuVernay lost her father earlier this weekend. While mourning his death she took to tweeter posting a picture of her and father with the caption reading, “My hero. My father. Murray Maye. The best man I’ve ever known. We took this picture a few...
by Candace | Mar 23, 2016 | Africa
How is the richest country in the nation (rich with natural resources), the poorest country in the nation? I have often wondered this but I know the answer. Just to name a few, in Africa you can find diamonds, gold, iron, copper, cobalt, silver, petroleum, cocoa beans...
by Candace | Mar 22, 2016 | News
Your class is reading the novel The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn which takes place in the South in the 1840s. You can probably imagine (if you’ve never read the book) that the word nigger is use quite a few times throughout the book. You are a 16 year-old black...
by Candace | Mar 22, 2016 | Blog
The Alfred Street Baptist Church in Alexandria, Virginia is a great example of what much churches should be doing. Far too many churches are taking offerings and building bigger churches, to hold larger congregations, to get more money in offerings. I don’t see...
by Candace | Mar 22, 2016 | News
The plot thickens in the Flint investigation. Michigan’s Governor, Snyder, is a real piece of work. During the Christmas holiday there was a break-in at the executive office in Flint and important documents relating to Flint’s water management were stolen. The crime...
