by Candace | Jan 14, 2016 | Culture
The variety of dolls children have to choose from these days is amazing. When I was a child all remember is Barbie. So this is very exciting for me being a former Barbie collector and now having daughters to share my love of dolls with. After having a conversation...
by Candace | Jan 13, 2016 | Opinion
In the 1700s in Virginia they created something called the Casual Killing Act. The law was created to protect people (white people) that killed blacks, not the other way around. This law stated that you (white people) can beat blacks to death (kill them) if you (white...
by Candace | Jan 12, 2016 | Blog
The banks are at it again, it first started in the housing sector and has now moved to automobile lending. An Ohio-based Fifth third bank has agreed to pay an $18 million settlement for discriminatory lending. But the land of the free and home of the brave is not...
by Candace | Jan 8, 2016 | Blog
Ariell R. Johnson decided to bring in the New Year by opening her own business, Amalgam Comics & Coffeehouse. Her comic book coffee shop is the first African American female-owned comic book shop on the East Coast. Philadelphia is known for its plethora of comic...
by Candace | Jan 8, 2016 | Business
Diane Stower owns a BP gas station in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She said she has lost thousands of dollars in business last year due to the police harassing her customers. Two young African American males were recorded saying while at her gas station an officer approached...
by Candace | Jan 8, 2016 | Celebrities
Michael Jackson’s 36 year old classic album, Off the Wall, will be re-released February 26th along with a DVD of the new Spike Lee Documentary entitled, Michael Jackson’s Journey from Motown to Off the Wall. The documentary will make its debut at the Sundance Film...
by Candace | Jan 7, 2016 | Blog
Dr. Hadiyah-Nicole Green is something like a big deal. She is a physicist and an assistant professor at Tuskegee University. There are less than 100 African American physicists in the United States and she is one of them! She is also the second African American female...
by Candace | Jan 7, 2016 | Celebrities, Positivity
Michael Jordan is currently the CEO and owner of the Charlotte Hornets, making him the ONLY black majority owner in the NBA. Not only are the Hornets the only team with a majority black ownership they also have the most diversified staff in the NBA. The diversity of...
by Candace | Jan 6, 2016 | Modern History, Positivity
Tamir Rice, Laquan McDonald, Sandra Bland, Michael Brown, Oscar Grant, and the list goes on. I don’t have to explain these stories because most of us are familiar with them. Police brutality has been a problem in the black community since its humble beginnings, when...
by Candace | Jan 5, 2016 | Positivity
I make blankets! Sounds easy enough right? Not when you add on the fact that the blanket are for satellites in outer space. Sounds far-fetched? Well meet Paula Cain from Maryland, she designs “space blankets”. Cain started her career with NASA almost eight years ago...
