by Forest Parks | Sep 2, 2016 | Celebrities, News
Cam Newton isn’t winning over African American fans with a round of recent acts. A few weeks ago he claimed that racism is no longer an issue in America and then during an ESPN interview he said that he neither agrees or disagrees with Colin Kaepernick’s recent...
by Forest Parks | Sep 2, 2016 | Culture, Opinion
As African American men and women became free the desire and need to build themselves up, become a part of wider society and stabilise themselves financially grew. Quite simply, free men and women needed to bank. On March 3rd 1865 Abraham Lincoln on signed the...
by Forest Parks | Sep 1, 2016 | News
Two former Jasper, Texas police offices beat an African-American woman inside Jasper City Jail because she had an unpaid traffic ticket. The now former officers Ricky Grissom and Ryan Cunningham beat Keyarika Diggles and the whole incident was caught on video. They...
by Forest Parks | Sep 1, 2016 | News
When 15-year-old Keston Charles was shot by police, he had his hands up. Despite this he was shot 16 times. He had been chased by police after brandishing a BB gun. Three of the shots hit him in his legs, buttocks and side during a foot chase. He luckily survived the...
by Forest Parks | Sep 1, 2016 | Culture, HBCU Pulse
The Medical University of South Carolina’s College of Medicine, know as COM, has the fifth largest number of African-American medical students in the USA outside of HBCUs and it’s ranked in the 96th percentile for medical schools with the most African-American...
by Forest Parks | Sep 1, 2016 | News
A teacher at a Cobb County School will be facing disciplinary action for using a slavery game to “educate” in a class with only one black student. The game used a roll of the dice to send students back to the plantation or have them escape to the woods....
by Forest Parks | Sep 1, 2016 | News, Politics News
Oh my good god, Kaepernick is making waves with such a simple action! So many people are showing support and now Philadelphia Eagles rookie Myke Tavarres has decided to join in the protest action. Colin Kaepernick has pledged that he will not stand for the anthem for...
by Forest Parks | Sep 1, 2016 | News
Many fellow althletes and celebs are standing by the side of Colin Kaepernick and his protest not to stand during the national anthem, something he plans to continue to do. One of the ongoing criticisms is that his protest disrespects veterans and those serving in the...
by Forest Parks | Sep 1, 2016 | News, Politics News
Well, it’s not exactly a shock to get confirmation from a political party that it sees a movement like Black Lives Matter as something to be “handled” not “engaged”. But, it’s still good to have it in black and white, hard evidence....
by Forest Parks | Sep 1, 2016 | Culture, History, Modern History
The Equal Justice Project are doing some amazing work and with this latest project they are creating lynching markers by collecting soil from lynching sites. You can see their video below and the explanation of the project, taken from YouTube, below that. RESPECT:...
