by Forest Parks | May 4, 2017 | News
Just as people were slamming the former President and his wife for taking huge sums off Wall Street and the likes for speeches they may have redeemed themselves with a massive donation slated to help jobs in Chicago. The Huffington Post reported: Obama made the...
by Forest Parks | May 4, 2017 | Celebrities, News
Wimbledon organizers announced that Ilie Nastase will not be invited to the Royal Box at the Tennis event after his Serena Williams remarks, deemed racist by most (apart from Nastase himself). All England Club chairman Philip Brook told the BBC: “His actions were not...
by Forest Parks | May 4, 2017 | News
A nearly 4 hour lockdown happened at upstate New York’s Colgate University college on Monday evening after it was reported that a black man was carrying a gun! It was true, he was carrying a gun…. A glue gun for a project. A student called campus safety...
by Forest Parks | May 4, 2017 | News
Former NBA star Brandon Roy is being hailed a hero after he used his own body to shield kids from a shooting that was happening outside his grandmother’s house in LA over the weekend. The 32 year old was outside and shooting started, he launched his body...
by Forest Parks | May 4, 2017 | News
Baltimore Orioles center fielder Adam Jones says that he was on the receiving end of racism at from Boston Red Sox fans after the two teams recently faced off. After the game he says: “A disrespectful fan threw a bag of peanuts at me. I was called the N-word a handful...
by Forest Parks | May 4, 2017 | Africa, News, Positivity
Being a black woman makes life hard enough in the USA but Haben Girma has extra challengers. She is blind and deaf BUT she has climbed above all of that and become the first deaf and blind graduate of Harvard Law School and she is simply awesome on every damn level!...
by Forest Parks | May 3, 2017 | Positivity
Seriously, just watch this! It’s moving, exciting and empowering!
by Forest Parks | May 3, 2017 | News
New information has surfaced from a specialist claiming that the spike in water main breaks during the Polar Vortex winters of 2014 and 2015 was one of several overlooked factors that ultimately led to the Flint water crisis, according to a retiring Michigan...
by Forest Parks | May 3, 2017 | News
April Ryan has been getting a lot of attention recently for her journalism and it seems it’s not gone unnoticed with The National Association of Black Journalists naming her its Journalist of the Year. Since ’97 Ryan has covered urban issues from the White...
by Forest Parks | May 3, 2017 | News
The New York Times that the Justice Department will not be charging the two officers involved in the fatal shooting of Alton Sterling. Alton was shot dead last July in Baton Rouge, Louisiana when he was pinned to the ground by the arresting officers. Police had...
