by Furious | Dec 5, 2013 | History, News
If you have a little age on you, you will NEVER forget the moment Nelson Mandela and his wife, Winnie, were walking hand in hand, fist raised to the sky when he was released from Victor prison, Cape Town, on Sunday, February 11th, 1990. I know I won’t. Although...
by Mark Young | Oct 4, 2013 | Blog, History
Compared to other races that live in America does the African American community display the same level of cultural connection and pride toward Africa that other races such as, Asian, European, and Latinos display toward their historic homelands? There are a few...
by Furious | Oct 4, 2013 | Business, History, News
Sounds like a great payday for black farmers, but this is hopefully the culmination of decades of wrong doing, injustice, and standing up for yourself. To say this has been an exasperating experience for the black farmers would be an understatement. Finally, black...
by Claytron Brown | Sep 21, 2013 | Culture, History, Positivity
Woman. A term that not all women of color have often, and arguably until this day, have been excluded from. Since the inception of this country, it was white women who were the quintessential “women.” They were its ideal standard of beauty, chastity, and purity. This...
by Claytron Brown | Sep 21, 2013 | Culture, History, Positivity
“Dr. Clenora Hudson-Weems: “Africana Womanism is a term I coined and defined in 1987 after nearly two years of publicly debating the importance of self-naming for Africana women. Why the term ‘Africana Womanism’?…. The first part of the coinage,...
by Claytron Brown | Sep 21, 2013 | Blog, Culture, History, Positivity
Africans were the first to inhabit the earth. Fossil records as well as DNA analysis give scientific evidence to support this fact. Therefore, the first woman to give birth was a Black African woman. It is from us that all humans have come. The other races of...
by Claytron Brown | Sep 18, 2013 | Blog, History
Capitalism, a socio-economic system, ideology, and way of life pervades our existence in this nation. Capitalism rose out of European medieval feudalism where land owners and the wealthy would loan plots of arable land to peasants and working peoples so they could...
by Patrick Irvine | Sep 13, 2013 | Blog, History
A couple months ago I wrote a blog called, A Few Well Known Black “Facts.” In this article I laid out 3 black “facts” of Black America that weren’t based on any real numbers. Regardless of whatever circumstantial situations that may arise to make these statements...
by Patrick Irvine | Sep 12, 2013 | Culture, History
Whenever I am in a discussion group, think tank, or mastermind for the black community the question always comes up: What are the challenges holding the black community back? Answers normally range from lack of education to lack of resources, but the one thing that...
by Te-Erika Patterson | Sep 11, 2013 | History, Positivity
It came as no surprise when the International Business Times reported that Toronto film goers walked out of the movie premiere for 12 Years A Slave. The IBT cited scenes of slaves being beaten, tortured and killed as the main fare of the movie. Toronto movie studio...
