by Forest Parks | Nov 18, 2015 | Blog, Business
Last Thursday one black man made a black woman a hell of a lot of money! Together they made one white led corporation a lot of money too! James Wright Chanel’s posted an animated review of the Patti LaBelle Pie. Basically the review went viral and threw the pie...
by Forest Parks | Nov 18, 2015 | News
As the world weeps for Paris, Nigeria continues to lose more of it’s people to acts of terror and really this is the time to make sure people weep for Nigeria too. More than 2000 people have been killed in the country this year and no Western world leaders have...
by Forest Parks | Nov 17, 2015 | News
At just 13 years old Za’Khari Waddy, who attends Tabb Middle School in Yorktown, Virginia, has been dealing with unacceptable racism from fello white students. After frustration it seems he took advice from his mother and published an open letter to his school. The...
by Forest Parks | Nov 17, 2015 | Blog
With a population of blacks double that of whites in Baltimore it’s suprising that 2013 figures showed whites still being accepted for twice as many mortgages. While immediately income could be seen as the likely cause for such a discrepancy a report released...
by Forest Parks | Nov 17, 2015 | News
A 40 year old man originally from Congo who died in last weeks Paris attacks is being hailed a hero as it is emerging that his act of heroism saved a friend from death. Ludovic Boumbas was one of many who died at the La Belle Equipe shooting after gunmen stormed in...
by Forest Parks | Nov 16, 2015 | Culture
Yasiin Bey is one of the most respected hip hop artists of his generation and from a political standoint is never shy of his opinion. Not long after the Paris Massacre he spoke with journalist Ferrari Sheppard and had some strong words against ISIS. However he also...
by Forest Parks | Nov 16, 2015 | Blog, News
On Sunday morning 24 year old Jamar Clark was shot by police. Many witnesses have said he was unarmed and handcuffed at the time! Police say after they were responding to an assault and that Jamar “interfered” with the paramedics the assault victim. Some...
by Forest Parks | Nov 16, 2015 | Blog
In 1995 UK Police Commissioner Paul Condon made a statement saying “the majority of robberies in London were committed by black people.”. Although a true statement based on police statistics it obviously caused outrage. Fast-forward to 2000 and the...
by Forest Parks | Nov 16, 2015 | History, Politics News
Reparations towards the descendents of slaves has been a hot topic for a long long time now but despite all the talk no government has made any serious steps to address the issue. Reparations are a serious issue so it really seems ridiculous that it hasn’t been...
by Forest Parks | Nov 14, 2015 | Blog, Culture
“Cuz He’s black.” is a spoken word poem written and originally performed by Javon Johnson at the 2013 National Poetry Slam in Boston. The poem and it’s themes, which are extremely relevent in 2015, were born out of a conversation with his four...
