by Forest Parks | Oct 6, 2016 | Blog
American Girl Movies have been going since the first half of the 2000s based on the line of dolls and various merchandise that represents girls of different times and moments in history. This American Girl movie is set in 1963, Melody is a young African American girl,...
by Forest Parks | Oct 6, 2016 | News
A father of four died in a jail cell of ‘natural’ causes in a case that may have gained little or no attention had it not been for a video recording of the incidents the evening before his death where he begged with the words ‘I can’t...
by Forest Parks | Oct 6, 2016 | Blog
“Its been difficult for me to find the words to what Im about to share with you because I feel ashamed. Ashamed to be a leader and hero to so many while admitting I’ve been living a lie. It took me a while to get to this place of commitment, but it is...
by Forest Parks | Oct 6, 2016 | News
This senseless killing drew comparisons with the shooting of unarmed Trayvon by George Zimmerman, however 47-year-old Michael Dunn has been dealt with by the law accordingly and will not be seeing the light of day for some time, we can all hope. Michael Dunn executed...
by Forest Parks | Oct 5, 2016 | News
Last week A Prairie View A&M University soccer player got herself into some serious trouble after she snapchatted a photo of her face covered in black tape, captioned “When you just tryna fit in at your HBCU.”. Obviously, you don’t have to be a...
by Forest Parks | Oct 5, 2016 | News
We reported earlier this week that a man who was committing the crime of ‘being black on his own porch’ was approached by cops and manhandled even after supplying his ID, eventually leading to his arrest. We reported in our article read it in full here...
by Forest Parks | Oct 5, 2016 | Culture, History
Luke Cage isn’t only the most unapologetically black show on the net, it’s possibly also the most empowering show for black people right now. Luke isn’t only going around taking bullets and struggling with the right life choices, he is reading,...
by Forest Parks | Oct 4, 2016 | History
On Tuesday bronze and granite pieces of a memorial sculpture was quietly and unceremoniously lowered into place on the Southern lawn of the Texas Capitol building. Two decades of hard work led to this seemingly low-key moment. The beginning of the installation of an...
by Forest Parks | Oct 4, 2016 | News
A new report has said that almost half of all people killed by police have a disability. In many cases urgent care is needed, not the lethal force that leads to lost lives! Disability organization, the Ruderman Family Foundation, released the report saying that...
by Forest Parks | Oct 4, 2016 | News
Did you know that African-Americans are around one quarter of the Chicago Police Force. That’s a huge percentage of men and women working in the system that also clearly represses them and an article in the Christian Science Monitor has spoken to some of those...
