by Forest Parks | Feb 26, 2016 | Africa, Culture
You know the saying “neccesity is the mother of invention”? Well that’s the case where true genius can stand out and arguable where our African ancestors started to stand out of the crowd of other species 100,000 years ago. We’ve flown to...
by Forest Parks | Feb 25, 2016 | Blog
Can you imagine from one second meeting a human that can speak English, French, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Mandarin Chinese, Haitian Creole, Japanese, and sign language fluently? And on top of that can play the piano, violin, guitar, harp, clarinet, conga, drums and...
by Forest Parks | Feb 25, 2016 | Culture, Positivity
Negative imagery around the black community can bring people down, so we have to point out and celebrate the good too. This is important and there really is so much good. A recent article from The Boston Globe put together some awesome positive statistics following a...
by Forest Parks | Feb 25, 2016 | Culture, History, Modern History
The Times has been going for some time now and it’s reporters have bagged a lot of visual history over the years. Now throughout February the paper has been releasing an awesome array of images from it’s archives and finally publishing them in an...
by Forest Parks | Feb 25, 2016 | Culture
American Girl hit 30 years old this year and to celebrate they introduced a few journalists to their newest historical doll. Melody Ellison is just 9 years old. She is African American in the civil rights era! She is also a singer and comes with a full story....
by Forest Parks | Feb 24, 2016 | News, Politics News
Let’s be clear. Why would anyone accept a large donation from a sector they openly say they want to ban? You could argue that you might as well take money from whoever will give it but we all know that’s NOT how politics work. Bernie Sanders says (and has...
by Forest Parks | Feb 24, 2016 | History
You may have heard of Madam C.J. Walker, she is often quoted as the first self made female African American millionaire and the inventor of the hair relaxer. She didn’t actually invent the hair relaxer but this doesn’t make her story any less amazing. Born...
by Forest Parks | Feb 23, 2016 | News, Politics News
On Saturday South Carolinan’s will take to the poll to pick either Bernie or Hilary. Amongst black votes it’s going to be close but Bernie just bagged another big celebrity endorsement with veteran film director Spike Lee. Strangely Spike’s wife has...
by Forest Parks | Feb 23, 2016 | Culture
Oprah Winfrey is arguably the most powerful black woman in the world when it comes to her influence over people. She has in the past been labelled the most influential person in the world, period! She speaks, people listen! Now, of course, her opinion on the...
by Forest Parks | Feb 23, 2016 | News
The systematic racism endemic to our countries governmental and law enforcement departments has been becoming more and more highlighted and spoken against recently but for all the speak it doesn’t seem that much is actually changing. This story emerging from the...