by Reneegede | Feb 28, 2015 | Opinion
Today marks the end of Black History Month 2015 and the beginning of Black History Year 2015. Anything worth one month has to be worth the entire year, including the celebration of parents, grandparents, and anything else we consider worthwhile. Attorney General Eric...
by Reneegede | Feb 25, 2015 | Opinion
July 2012 – …George Zimmerman has no regrets from the night he killed unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin, the Florida resident told Fox News’s Sean Hannity Wednesday. “I feel that it was all God’s plan,” Zimmerman said....
by Reneegede | Feb 25, 2015 | Opinion
Stockholm syndrome is a phrase that was coined at the end of a six-day hostage situation in which a bank was seized and its workers were held captive. Ultimately, the kidnapped hostages end up empathizing with their captors, some to the point of becoming sympathetic...
by Reneegede | Feb 16, 2015 | Opinion
Some Positive News for those who can stomach it: Steve Harvey, some  sad long hours ago, said he didn’t give a damn about slavery during this, yet another Black History Month; and it was yet another double-barreled shot and gut-punch heard around the Black...
by Reneegede | Feb 6, 2015 | Opinion
Yes, that is his real name, Tom Cotton. And apparently, only he and his friends know exactly in the hell where “Hell” is; and furthermore, they appear to be speaking as if they have the keys to its Front Gates. Let’s lay a small but doggishly solid...
by Reneegede | Feb 6, 2015 | Opinion
There are white people in America, evangelicals who call themselves “christians,” and they will bother to tell you that their own “white” Jesus was not a Roman Catholic idol symbolic of themselves as gods, but in fact — they were lied to...
by Reneegede | Feb 3, 2015 | Opinion
There is only one reason for me to write: To take an active part in the Black community by finding teachable moments in life, and to try and convey them, along with the news, with the heart and spirit and soul of a Harriet Tubman or a Sojourner Truth, or even of a...
by Reneegede | Jan 28, 2015 | Opinion
“New York Times columnist Charles Blow, one of the country’s leading speakers and writers on race and American identity, said on Twitter Saturday afternoon that his son, Tahj Blow ’16, had been held at gunpoint by Yale Police officers.” Blow...
by Reneegede | Jan 27, 2015 | Opinion
In the words of Iowa’s Joni Kay Ernst: “As a young girl, I plowed the fields of our family farm. I worked construction with my dad. To save for college, I worked the morning biscuit line at Hardees. We were raised to live simply, not to waste. It was a...
by Reneegede | Jan 27, 2015 | Opinion
We know that Black women have had historically worse outcomes in nearly all levels of health disparities in society. Be it congestive heart failure, kidney disease, diabetes, sickle cell anemia, lupus, AIDS, what-have-you, and nearly every form of cancer you can name,...
