by Koba | Oct 10, 2016 | Politics News
Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin has a great new interview with President Obama in Vanity Fair. In the wide-ranging interview, they discuss Abraham Lincoln, Obama’s biggest regrets from his time in office, and how a visit to the pyramids reminded Obama that cable news...
by Koba | Oct 10, 2016 | Blog
People in our community have been saying that cops plant drugs on them, steal drugs from them, and resale them on the street for years. But nah, we know that there are just a few bad apples and most cops are good cops, right? We all know that good cops turn in bad...
by Koba | Oct 10, 2016 | Positivity
There is no secret that the educational system is failing the black community as a whole. Children are not learning and are just being pushed through a system that isn’t there to support them anyway. But sometimes there is light at the end of the tunnel. At...
by Koba | Oct 10, 2016 | Blog
Have you ever wondered why the police treat black people so bad? It is almost as if the moment police officers see black people (especially black men), they tense up and become defensive. They make assumptions which out evidence and react based off of these...
by Koba | Oct 10, 2016 | Positivity
While at times large companies and brands have seemed reluctant to take a stance on the country’s current racial climate, on Thursday, the ice cream company Ben & Jerry’s issues a strong statement in support of the movement, tweeting a Black Lives Matter banner...
by Koba | Oct 10, 2016 | Blog
If you’re one of the nearly 150,000 prisoners locked up in Texas and you like to read, you’re gonna have a bad time, as the Texas Department of Criminal Justice bans nearly 15,000 books. Texas inmates aren’t allowed to read books by Malcolm X,...
by Koba | Oct 10, 2016 | Blog
If you missed Lecrae preaching wisdom at the 2016 BET Hip Hop Awards, you need to take a second. The Grammy Award-winning Christian rapper, who has been outspoken about racial injustice, took to the stage at Tuesday’s event for a performance that highlighted the...
by Koba | Sep 22, 2016 | Blog
If I was to tell you that a black man got into a brawl with two cops, one female and one male, what do you think the outcome would be? My assumption is that you would think the black man would be murdered. Nine times out of ten that assumption would be right. Now, if...
by Koba | Sep 22, 2016 | Blog
Louis Farrakhan sometimes get criticism for being to harsh on people. Some of those who oppose him question his real intentions for the black community and if he is really a racist. But I challenge you to answer this question. What has he done that has harmed his...
by Koba | Sep 22, 2016 | Blog
I first want to commend the black person that took this photo. Reason being is because he didn’t get up and smack the sh*t out of this white girl (we all know he would have went to jail or been murdered by the police before he got to jail). Secondly, the white...
