by Forest Parks | Mar 1, 2016 | Culture
British twins Peter and Paula Imafidon, who were born to Nigerian parents, broke records as they sat 34 GCSEs collectively last summer and were offered places in 60 of the UK’s top schools for their continued education. GCSE’s are the exams taken by...
by Forest Parks | Mar 1, 2016 | News, Politics News
John Oliver is bit by bit becoming a driving force in public opinion and personally show-on-show he and his team are so amazingly on point that I wish they could be helping set policy. John’s show has so far stayed away from Donald Trump but I guess things are...
by Forest Parks | Mar 1, 2016 | News, Politics News
If reports from Trump’s Valdosta State University rally yesterday are true then this has yet more serious implications. It’s being reported that around 30 quiet students were removed from the rally. They stood by the bleachers, quietly, wanting to see...
by Forest Parks | Feb 29, 2016 | Culture
Black skiers and snowboarders hit the slopes in Japan to enjoy the awesome powder and cultural exchange for the 2016 Japow powder party and it looked like an awesome time! Now plans for the 2017 and 2018 Japow events are underway. Ja stands for Japan and Pow for...
by Forest Parks | Feb 29, 2016 | Culture
Oh man, imagine how illustrator Marcus Williams joined and writer Greg Burnham felt when their Sci-Fi comic series that honors America’s black Tuskeegee Airmen pilots. Based 80 years in the future the series follows a group of teens who have extraordinary...
by Forest Parks | Feb 29, 2016 | Culture
There is that heart breaking scene in Forest Gump where he meets his little boy and is clearly outsmarted but you feel the love. Now, Elise’s parents are certainly not challenged like Forest Gump but their little girl’s smarts clearly trump theirs and at...
by Forest Parks | Feb 27, 2016 | Blog
Woahhhh, strong words from Melissa Harris-Perry were reported by the New York Times. Aparently she is frustrate with pre-emptions at her show. She confirmed she will not be returning to her show and the Times reported: In a phone interview, Ms. Harris-Perry confirmed...
by Forest Parks | Feb 26, 2016 | Culture
Daquan Minor’s entire life was turned upside down when at just 18 he suffered a car accident leaving him paralyzed from the waist down. He was into sports and even was just leaving the gym when his car flipped 5 times. He arrived at Texas’s TIRR Memorial...
by Forest Parks | Feb 26, 2016 | Culture
There is so much talent in this world and the black community is brimming with it. Child prodigies are here, there and everywhere and although the media unleashes some of them onto us the majority just work away being the geniuses they are in their own little world....
by Forest Parks | Feb 26, 2016 | Africa, Culture, Positivity
There is so much talent in this world, much of it is out of site because people are not given the “opportunity”. Morris, a 15-year-old boy who lived on the streets of Kenya for over a year knows this all too well. In this video that started to go viral on...
