by Forest Parks | Dec 4, 2016 | Business, Buy Black Xmas
Melissa Butler founded The Lip Bar after frustration at the beauty standards in the industry. She just wanted a nude lipstick that looked good on her, a standard of beauty that mirrored her. Bluntly the industry is overwhelming aimed at white faces, shades of pink and...
by Forest Parks | Dec 2, 2016 | net worth
Have you heard of Folorunsho Alakija? Well, she is a 62 year-old Nigerian billionaire. She is the second richest African woman after Angola’s Isabel Dos Santos. Alakija is the vice chair of the Famfa Oil and a fashion designer. Fanfa Oil is a gas and oil...
by Forest Parks | Dec 2, 2016 | News
Some people are amazingly stupid, absolutely amazingly stupid! I can’t imagine how you can become a Doctor and then claim that you didn’t realise calling a black lady “monkey face” was racist! Obviously she this lady has been keeping her eyes...
by Forest Parks | Dec 2, 2016 | A List Categories, Culture, Modern History
Back when Ziggy Marley was a kid Jamaica was going through political turmoil. His Dad, Bob Marley, had organised a free political concert On December 3, 1976. Three days before, he was practising at home with the band, gunmen broke into the house and tried to kill Bob...
by Forest Parks | Dec 2, 2016 | News
I saw this video and was like, WHAT THE FLYING F**K? These two women go crazy, they use various objects as weapons, then decide to go playing bumper cars, all because the madness of wanting a parking space. Surely, this kind of selfish, every person for themselves...
by Forest Parks | Dec 2, 2016 | News
Almost 40 years ago, then Black Panther, Sundiata Acoli, was part of a group of Panther’s abused by New Jersey police. During the fire-fight he shot dead state trooper Werner Foerster. Once tried he was handed down a life sentence plus 30 years, the longest in...
by Forest Parks | Dec 2, 2016 | Business, Buy Black Xmas, Culture
As part of our initiative to buy black this Christmas, we’re featuring some great black-owned products and services to consider for your holiday shopping. When you’re tired of giving your loved one gift cards or you want something more personal without...
by Forest Parks | Dec 2, 2016 | Blog
Any headway in decreasing the earnings gap between black and white men has been destroyed and is back to the levels of the 1950s according to a new report! Patrick Bayer, an economist at Duke University, has stated: “When it comes to the earnings gap between black and...
by Forest Parks | Dec 2, 2016 | Afro-Latinx, Celebrities, News
A racist music industry, illiteracy meaning he couldn’t register his songs and years of poverty has meant that 95-year-old Magin Diaz has never been able to make it big from the iconic music he has composed. Many of his songs have been recorded by famous...
by Forest Parks | Dec 2, 2016 | News
A kid is supposed to be safe at school and although sometimes kids can get a bit rough with each other you should never expect the violence to come from the teachers or adults in authority. However, recently we have seen cases of abuse from those who are supposed to...
