by Forest Parks | Oct 16, 2018 | History, Profiles in Black History, UI Daily
At 35-years-old he became the youngest person to win the Nobel Peace Prize. YES you know the man and YES you will be pleased to know he has finally found his way onto a Black History Flashcard as a special BONUS card! Read on to learn / review a little about his life!...
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...
by Forest Parks | Oct 5, 2018 | History, Profiles in Black History, UI Daily
After the murder of Trayvon Martin, these ladies felt compelled to take action and what they created went National and beyond!? Learn more about below! Organizers, freedom fighters, and justice seekers. Creators of Black Lives Matter; a chapter-based national...
by Forest Parks | Oct 4, 2018 | History, Profiles in Black History, UI Daily
These fearsome warriors represent a gruesome and hard-fought part of our history that was not so long ago! You have to wonder how each of these women would be fighting today? Learn more about these warriors below! An all-female military regiment of the Kingdom of...
by Reneegede | Oct 2, 2018 | Opinion
Recently, WRBL Channel 3 News in Columbus, Georgia did a short but viable report on the problem of escalating criminal and gang activity in the “real streetz” of one of the city’s oldest neighborhoods, East Highland. The Black Contribution to Gang...
by gamma | Oct 2, 2018 | History, Profiles in Black History, UI Daily
She fought against a racist system in a white-dominated sport with fire, she did the unbelievable and stayed true to herself at every single step, even though they continued to try to knock her down! Learn more and watch the amazing backflip below! Award-winning...
by Reneegede | Sep 30, 2018 | Opinion
Watching a documentary on television shows in the 1990s. I never saw any of them because I was too busy working…often late into the night. But after I retired, I started looking up some of the many shows I missed while working and in school for two decades...
by Koba | Sep 26, 2018 | Business
It is important that you know we are not in love with hair extensions, we are in love with the business of hair extensions! Our black women spend $56 Billion Dollars a year on hair, yet black women (or men for that matter) make less than 1% of that. Urban...
by Reneegede | Sep 17, 2018 | Opinion
Great America-Babylonian whoredom has been a fact of American life since its inception many centuries ago. The fact that white people had the gall to hide it and pretend it didn’t exist or that they were doing nothing wrong is a burden they have to bear. Now it...
by Reneegede | Sep 16, 2018 | Opinion
Landmark history-making United States of America First Lady Michelle Obama will be out and about to promote her upcoming memoir, “Becoming”. (Crown Publishing Group/Penguin Random House) The book goes on sale Tuesday, November 13, 2018 and is currently...
