by Freddie Ra | Sep 14, 2016 | Black 365
The 365 Black History serious is designed to give our community a chance to learn and appreciate the achievement, struggles and experience of our ancestors, inventors, business people, scientific, educators, children and more. On September 14 in Black History 1921...
by Freddie Ra | Sep 13, 2016 | Black 365
The 365 Black History serious is designed to give our community a chance to learn and appreciate the achievement, struggles and experience of our ancestors, inventors, business people, scientific, educators, children and more. On September 13 in Black History 1663...
by Freddie Ra | Sep 8, 2016 | Profiles in Black History
World record-holder Jesse Owens had one qualifying jump left at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. He had fouled on four of his first five tries. And he was angry because Nazi ruler Adolf Hitler, with his misguided notions of Aryan supremacy, had just delivered an...
by Freddie Ra | Aug 26, 2016 | Did You Know, Profiles in Black History
In at least one branch of industry, America owes its supremacy to an African American, Jan Ernest matzeliger. A pioneer in the art of shoemaking, he enriched America and other nations by billions of dollars, made a dozen or more millionaires, created work for hundreds...
by Freddie Ra | Aug 24, 2016 | Business
By Curtis Bunn, Urban News Service Business runs through Dionne Mahaffey’s veins. Her father was an entrepreneur as she grew up in Birmingham, Alabama. So, it was almost inevitable that Mahaffey, a business psychologist and self-described “techie,” would develop...
by Freddie Ra | Aug 24, 2016 | Business, Positivity
By Patrice Gaines, Urban News Service For Monique Greenwood, the decision to be an entrepreneur came down to legacy building. “I could leave my daughter a portfolio of real estate and a business to run, but I couldn’t leave her a job at Essence,” said Greenwood, who...
by Freddie Ra | Aug 12, 2016 | Celebrities, Modern History
The world was introduced to a powerful new force in the #BlackGirlMagic movement last night at the Olympics in Rio, Brazil, but the sad part is you probably haven’t heard much about it. 20 year old Simone Manuel became the first African-American, female swimmer...
by Freddie Ra | Jul 7, 2016 | Blog
It is rare in the 21st century to hear a police officer speak the truth when it comes to one of their own who is doing wrong. Many call the Blue Wall of Silence an unwritten rule among police officers. Therefore, when one has the courage to break the silence and speak...
by Freddie Ra | Jun 28, 2016 | Celebrities
LOS ANGELES, June 14, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Entertainment Studios, Inc., (www.es.tv) one of the largest independent producers and distributors of first-run syndicated television programming for broadcast television stations, and owner of seven 24-hour HD cable...
by Freddie Ra | Jun 16, 2016 | Business
By Luis Vasquez-Ajmac, Urban News Service Show Kayla Rodriguez a jar of honey, and she will tell you it’s medicine. Against the odds is one way to describe the young, Latina entrepreneur in the predominantly white, male-dominated, global biotech industry. Kayla...
