by Forest Parks | Dec 13, 2018 | Opinion, Positivity
If you are a non-US reader then you may already be familiar with Boxing day, the day after Christmas, the 26th December. In some countries, such as the UK, it is a holiday. However, do you know anything about its origin or any of the other customs around the day? What...
by Reneegede | Dec 1, 2018 | Opinion
National Day of Mourning for Trump On the eve of George Herbert Walker (HW) Bush’s translation out of this present world, supremely white American nationalist leader Donald John Trump has set December 5 to be a “National Day of Mourning” in honor of...
by Forest Parks | Nov 23, 2018 | History, Opinion
I just can’t deal with the absolute bull anymore that Christopher Columbus founded the USA. It is stuffed down our throats, celebrated. The USA actually celebrates a man coming and ravaging a native population then claiming he found a land! Yesterday’s...
by Forest Parks | Nov 15, 2018 | News, Opinion
This morning I am mad. You have heard by now that armed security guard Jemel Roberson was fatally shot at his work in a Chicago bar by a white police officer who was called to the scene of a potential mass shooting incident. When the white officer arrived Jemel had...
by Reneegede | Nov 15, 2018 | Opinion
As everyone has probably heard by now, Georgia gubernatorial candidate and Democratic nominee Stacey Abrams has yet to concede and hand Brian Kemp, her Republican opponent and former Secretary of State, his self-declared “victory” in a too-close-to-call...
by Reneegede | Nov 4, 2018 | Opinion
It seems like it wasn’t that long ago that Facebook was nicknamed “Racebook” because some prolific Black persons and persons of color took it upon themselves to counter systemic racism on social media by countering demeaning anti-Black posts with...
by Reneegede | Nov 3, 2018 | Opinion
Well, I mean let’s go for the “D’uh”-Factor. When you live in a state that allows the Secretary of State who controls the vote to remain in office and run for Governor, you should expect some votes to come up missing to make him a winner, and...
by Reneegede | Nov 3, 2018 | Opinion
You just went on a racist rant that was full-on ‘Umar Johnson-ish’ and ‘Kanye Kardashian-esque’ about Oprah Winfrey and Barack Obama campaigning for Stacey Abrams in Georgia. Yet, you spoke not a word about all of the white celebrities or...
by Forest Parks | Oct 29, 2018 | Opinion, Positivity
We don’t watch the NFL and since stopping we’ve found the time is much more productive for the growth of our community, ourselves and our business. Freddie, CEO of Urban Intellectuals and Sankofa Club, took to Facebook yesterday for a Facebook live to go...
by Reneegede | Oct 8, 2018 | Opinion
QUOTE: “The coon caricature is one of the most insulting of all anti-black caricatures.” The name itself, an abbreviated version of the word “raccoon”, is dehumanizing. This is a term that Black people often use to describe what they refer to...
