by Koba | Feb 13, 2017 | Did You Know
Remember Craig Hodges from the Championship Chicago Bulls? He was a three point hitting machine and helped the Chicago Bulls become world champions. What you probably didn’t know was that he was black-balled from the NBA. Why? Because he decided to write a...
by Krystal | Feb 12, 2017 | Blog, Did You Know, DYK, History
The FBI began COINTELPRO—short for Counterintelligence Program—in 1956 to disrupt the activities of the Communist Party of the United States. In the 1960s, it was expanded to include a number of other domestic groups, such as the Ku Klux Klan, the Socialist Workers...
by Forest Parks | Feb 10, 2017 | Did You Know, DYK, History, Modern History
Have you heard of Lt. Gen Nadja West? One year ago a ceremony was held to promote West to three-star general, this was significant as she became the US Military’s first ever black female three-star general! In December (2016) she started her role as the 44th...
by Forest Parks | Feb 9, 2017 | Did You Know, DYK, History
Robert Smalls is one of those men that did the unthinkable, he flew in the face of danger rather than lay down and accept his sorry fate. He did more than most and along the way he saved others and brought them to his cause. buy ivermectin online...
by Chum Sejimon | Feb 8, 2017 | Black Economics, Blog, Did You Know, DYK, Thought Talk Speculation
In light of Dr. Ben Carson’s nomination as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and the commencement of the Trump Administration, there is no better time than now to discuss the creation of the “black ghetto” and housing discrimination known as redlining....
by Forest Parks | Feb 8, 2017 | Did You Know, DYK, History
Have you ever heard the name Octavius Catto? Well, if not you need to know all about him! An unsung hero of the black civil rights movement that fought for his people a century before Martin Luther King, Jr. stepped up to the plate! Catto was born in 1839, under...
by Forest Parks | Feb 5, 2017 | Did You Know, DYK
Ronald Reagan had a mission to eradicate communism and wasn’t just interested in making sure communists stayed out of the United States. Reagan’s little pet project was trying to eradicate the Cuban-backed Sandinistas in Nicaragua. He did this by...
by Candace | Feb 3, 2017 | DYK
William Still was known as the “The Father of the Underground Railroad.” Although Harriet Tubman was the conductor of the Underground Railroad, Still played a major in reuniting families once they escaped slavery. You can probably imagine it could be difficult...
by Forest Parks | Feb 3, 2017 | Did You Know, DYK, History
Ask 10 black people what political party they vote for and it’s very likely between 8 and 9 of them will reply Democrat. Blacks simply just don’t vote and are not Republicans. On many key (and minor) issues the Republican party are seen by many as the...
by Forest Parks | Feb 2, 2017 | Did You Know, DYK, History
The Ku Klux Klan seems to be having somewhat of a modern resurgence, or rather they are stepping back out of the shadows, with the normalisation of White Supremacy in the post-Trump election era. Very much tied to and arguably integrated into the Republican party...
