by Reneegede | Feb 2, 2019 | Opinion
Disenfranchised “They say when an elder dies, a whole library burns to the ground.” *** As a child, I learned that for myself. But I was an ‘old kindred spirit’ of a little girl who loved sitting around the knees listening to the old...
by James Washington | Feb 2, 2019 | 2019, Black History Month, Did You Know, DYK, History
The month of February is considered “Black History Month” across the United States. But it had a much earlier predecessor called “Negro History Week”. This recognition was the brainchild of an African-American historian, Dr. Carter G. Woodson. He is considered by...
by Reneegede | Feb 1, 2019 | Opinion
I must admit, I had a dark moment when President Obama was in office, and that is when he went well and far beyond the scope of what many refer to as “Christianity” in endorsing gay marriage. They lit the White House up in rainbow colors and dubbed him...
by Forest Parks | Feb 1, 2019 | History, Profiles in Black History
Frances Cress Welsing is an American Afrocentrist psychiatrist who became known for her 1970 essay The Cress Theory of Color-Confrontation and Racism, which became the beginning of the Isis Papers. Born on March 18, 1935, in Chicago, Illinois, her father, Henry, was a...
by Reneegede | Jan 31, 2019 | Opinion
Since the early 1500s, more to the point, the mid-1500s (around 1564), Africans kidnapped and sold off to America have faced one never-ending trial and horrific tribulation after another. This is of no credit to the enemy(ies) of our souls, but to their shame; and to...
by Reneegede | Jan 30, 2019 | Opinion
A UI article written by news reporter Randall Barnes on June 22, 2017 spoke of the deaths of some of our most magnificent and notable icons in the music industry and how they were honored at the BET Awards for that year or the following. He stated and I repeat …...
by Reneegede | Jan 29, 2019 | Opinion
For those Millennials too young to remember, ask your grandmothers. The world and Urban Intellectuals mourns James Ingram, now in concert, as Debbie Allen said of him “In the Celestial Choir”. You will likely hear a lot about him in the days to come. More...
by Reneegede | Jan 28, 2019 | Opinion
MY HOW … The. Chickens. Home. Roost. #draintheswamp So MUCH winning: The REAL Heroes Have ZERO Crimes…
by Reneegede | Jan 28, 2019 | Opinion
Genesis 9 New International Version (NIV) God’s Covenant With Noah Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth. 2 The fear and dread of you will fall on all the beasts of the earth, and on all the birds in...
by Forest Parks | Jan 28, 2019 | Positivity
This story is amazing and one that should inspire each and every one of us to do something in our local community! Detroit natives Timothy Paule and Nicole Lindsey are making use of vacant lots in the city and decided that they would be perfect not only for raising...
