by Candace | Dec 21, 2016 | Did You Know
Charles Richard Patterson was born into slavery in April of 1833 in Virginia. In 1861 he settled in Greenfield, Ohio to escape slavery and start anew. He used his blacksmith skills to gain employment at a carriage building company. In 1873 he took the skills he...
by Forest Parks | Dec 21, 2016 | News
“There’s a normalization of trauma in this community,… We don’t engage it, we don’t address it.” Many black people are suffering from mental trauma and other conditions but with treatment being out of reach many in the community are left to suffer the effects,...
by Forest Parks | Dec 21, 2016 | News
Seriously, do we need more of this! Are the youth not supposed to be our future? It’s videos like this that can make a man lose hope. The racist snapchat post by students at Oregon City High School shows them complaining about principle Tom Lovell and black...
by Forest Parks | Dec 21, 2016 | Culture, News
Reboots are often a BAD idea, the updates often miss the mark or try to hard to nod the original source material. They rarely work as people would like. However, Sony Pictures Television is talking about rebooting ‘All in the Family’, ‘Good Times’, ‘The Jeffersons’...
by Forest Parks | Dec 21, 2016 | News
Black preschoolers, children and teens are exposed to nearly 50% more junk food adverts than their white counterparts. These are the findings of a recent study by the Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity, examining TV food advertising towards kids. The study...
by Forest Parks | Dec 21, 2016 | History
A white man’s slaves were for many his most prized possessions. These “objects” were valuable and valuable items need to be insured! Slow sales led New York Life, the countrys’ third largest life insurance company, to look south and in in 1846...
by Forest Parks | Dec 21, 2016 | Culture, News, Opinion
How can this mess in America be solved? Police are shooting black men seemingly for nothing, beating them when they feel like it. It feels like a mafia stomping on whoever they feel like. Can this be changed, healed, should black people even begin to entertain the...
by Forest Parks | Dec 21, 2016 | Africa, Culture
J International AKA The Face Of Travel visited Kenya, for many black Americans Africa feels like a world so far departed that it bears no connection. However there is always a draw and this short video gives one man’s run down (condensed) of one of the most...
by Forest Parks | Dec 21, 2016 | Opinion
The story goes something like this… the term African American was first coined by Rev. Jesse Jackson and some other scholars during a late 80s news conference to fight the effect of racism on black people in the USA, to raise the self esteem of the people. Some...
by Candace | Dec 20, 2016 | News
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