by Forest Parks | Dec 20, 2016 | Celebrities, News
Close friends and former lovers facing each other for a candid talk about matters close to their heart and life….. That’s what happened when Serena and Common sat down for an hour-long ESPN special “The Undefeated In-Depth: Serena with Common,”...
by Forest Parks | Dec 20, 2016 | News
On Monday settlements were announced by the New Orleans Mayor for familes of those who suffered deadly police shootings in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. He also apologized to the victims’ families on behalf of the city and announced that the lawsuits had...
by Forest Parks | Dec 20, 2016 | Africa, Culture
Using self-reported diet surveys from 187 countries that are home to 89% of the world’s adult population, researchers led by Fumiaki Imamura from the University of Cambridge analyzed the intake of healthy foods such as fruit, vegetables, legumes, whole grains, and...
by Forest Parks | Dec 20, 2016 | Opinion
Ok, don’t shoot me before we delve into this discussion point! Black women are fat, not citing exact sources (because all of them point to the same fact) somewhere around 4 out of 5 black women in America are overweight or 82% with 56% considered obese, not just...
by Forest Parks | Dec 19, 2016 | Africa, Business
After realising that her friends loved her American foldable flats, Taffi Ayodele and her husband moved to Lagos in Nigeria and start Africa’s first foldable flats brand. In 2012 Taffi was working in South Africa for a luxury brand. She grew up in New York so...
by Forest Parks | Dec 19, 2016 | News, Opinion
Reverend William Barber is the head of the North Carolina NAACP and he stopped by Democracy Now to make something clear about the Guilty verdict for Dylann Roof. Watch the video below and read the transcript below that. AMY GOODMAN: Finally, I wanted to ask you about...
by Forest Parks | Dec 19, 2016 | History
Haiti was such a strong nation, the first free black state in the America’s…. If France hadn’t punished and pushed their vile repression towards the nation who knows where they would be now. A thriving cultural centre, a role model for other nations...
by Forest Parks | Dec 19, 2016 | Culture
The Good Times was woke back in 1974, it showed interactions and conversations blasted out to Americans who may have not encountered such things. This was TV that empowered blacks and educated whites, something that was severely needed then and is still much needed...
by Forest Parks | Dec 19, 2016 | History
Hero worship is something we all have to be careful of. The legacy of Ghandi has been carefully constructed and his conversion from everyday hero to god status has been one that’s lost much of the reality from the life of the man. Ghandi was a man who made a...
by Forest Parks | Dec 19, 2016 | Positivity
A video is doing the rounds showing a student giving another student a pair of Jordans. The student was apparently bullied for the way he dressed. Of course this is a beautiful act, a gesture beyond gestures…. Sadly I think we can all agree that the root of the...
