by Forest Parks | Sep 26, 2016 | News
Sixteen North Carolina-based activist organizations have joined forces to create the collective Charlotte Uprising after the death of Keith Scott at the hands of police. The advocacy collective, working to end police violence, has a large presence at the current...
by Forest Parks | Sep 26, 2016 | Celebrities, News
Bill Nunn was a beloved actor, known more recently as Daily Bugle editor Joseph “Robbie” Robertson in Sam Raimi’s Spider Man, with roles in iconic movies like Sister Act and New Jack City to boot. But, his early performance with long time friend and collaborator...
by Forest Parks | Sep 25, 2016 | News
A guy from the Free Hugs Project was at the protests in Charlotte, North Carolina trying to get free hugs out there, to police, fellow protesters and anyone that would take them. He wants to keep things peaceful, wants to spread love and get people to unite to solve...
by Forest Parks | Sep 25, 2016 | News
Omar Edwards was a black cop, he had always wanted to be a cop says his mother. He wanted to help people, to enforce law and fairness. But he has no chance of being one of the good cops anymore, and you could say it was simply because he was a black man. As a black...
by Forest Parks | Sep 25, 2016 | News, Politics News
It’s a really powerful scene as the American National Anthem echoes through the stadium. The cameras show the UNC fans together, all colors, gender and ages, with their fists firmly and strongly planted up in the air. What on earth did Kaepernick start!...
by Forest Parks | Sep 25, 2016 | Celebrities, News, Politics News
A reporter from TMZ caught up with Oprah Winfrey after her visit to the new African American museum. She talked about how moving the Emmett Til parts were and how one the lynching of one man sparked a national movement. She then made a statement saying that now...
by Forest Parks | Sep 24, 2016 | News
This video has to be shared, as CNN and various outlets played a video from the wife of Keith Scott who was shot by police in Charlotte, NC, one man slowed it down and investigated. The slow motion footage clearly shows a gun appear from one moment to the next that...
by Forest Parks | Sep 24, 2016 | Celebrities, News
Cancer is no joke, it affects us all directly or indirectly. Many of us lose loved ones to this terrible illness. However technology and medicine is getting better, early detection can lead to complete destruction of cancer and with common cancers regular screening is...
by Forest Parks | Sep 24, 2016 | Celebrities, News
Although he declined to be interviewed Forbe’s magazine featured African-American billionaire Robert Smith on it’s cover last year. Since then many people have known the face of a man that before that moved around in relative peace. He still tried to...
by Reneegede | Sep 23, 2016 | Opinion
The Case for Calling Racist Killings What They Are: Fascism in America. VIABLE SOLUTIONS article to follow this one. America has a history of lynching and the details of it go without saying. No one has to drag ol’ boy Jim Crow through the mud again. He has...
