by Furious | Oct 14, 2013 | Culture
Columbus Day is bogus! Built on a lie! And many in the black community are fed up with it. However, America isn’t ready to wake to the horrors this man represents to the African Diaspora and repent for their injustices, but that doesn’t mean have to...
by Spirit of Thoth | Sep 25, 2013 | Celebrities, Culture
Hello UI. There are things in this world that are in your face, and direct. We see these things as threats, and tackle them head on with vigor, and strong emotional feelings. However there are many small wars that rage on, yet are so subtle that we tend to forget that...
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 Patrick Irvine | Sep 17, 2013 | Blog, Culture
For the majority of the last week we have been talking about 5 of the things that helped to destroy the black family. We covered poverty, drugs, men, women, and culture, we talked about psychology and economics, education and stereotypes all with the sole purpose of...
by Patrick Irvine | Sep 17, 2013 | Blog, Culture
So yesterday we covered The War on Drugs which basically is the part where black men exit stage left. But It’s time for the final War of the series so lets get into it. 5. The War on Black Culture and consciousness This is an unofficial war that is...
by Spirit of Thoth | Sep 16, 2013 | Culture
Once again UI, I welcome you to another insightful blog posting. In the past I have spoken to you all about overt displays of racism an injustice. Racism does exist, and is alive and well. Some is direct and in your face. I don’t like it, but at least I can respect a...
by Claytron Brown | Sep 15, 2013 | Culture, Positivity
People of color, mainly African Americans, are a people forged through the fires of Hell while resisting every step of the way with hope that Heaven exists somewhere for them. Since the onset of this nation, and I mean since its independence from Great Britain,...
by Patrick Irvine | Sep 14, 2013 | Blog, Culture
Last week we talked about the War on Poverty and it’s role in the Destruction of the black family. What this war did was remove the black workforce and since at the time most of the workers where male, it removed the black male from the workforce. From that...
