by Candace | Mar 25, 2016 | News
We finally have a little bit of closure on the Flint water crisis. The Flint Water Advisory Task Force finished their investigation earlier this week and a report was delivered to Snyder Monday morning. The report blamed everyone from the Department of Environmental...
by Anthony Thomas | Mar 24, 2016 | Africa, Politics News
The truth is both Africans and African-Americans have many reasons to work together. The similarities in their experiences when it comes to relationships with the West are obvious for anyone who knows a shred of their history. Well one world leader is urging a union...
by Candace | Mar 24, 2016 | Positivity
The DC teen’s Google doodle honoring African-American heritage has gone viral on the internet today. Akilah Johnson, a 10th-grade student from Washington, D.C. had the internet going nuts Monday. Akilah’s artwork had a breakthrough in Google’s top...
by Candace | Mar 24, 2016 | Positivity
For a person to turn their life from being an ex con to government lawyer, it takes a lot of courage and determination. Noah Kilroy went from a life of hustling and drug dealing to becoming a lawyer. He was raised in foster homes after being abandoned by his mother,...
by Candace | Mar 24, 2016 | Celebrities
Director Ava DuVernay lost her father earlier this weekend. While mourning his death she took to tweeter posting a picture of her and father with the caption reading, “My hero. My father. Murray Maye. The best man I’ve ever known. We took this picture a few...
by Candace | Mar 23, 2016 | Africa
How is the richest country in the nation (rich with natural resources), the poorest country in the nation? I have often wondered this but I know the answer. Just to name a few, in Africa you can find diamonds, gold, iron, copper, cobalt, silver, petroleum, cocoa beans...
by Candace | Mar 22, 2016 | News
Your class is reading the novel The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn which takes place in the South in the 1840s. You can probably imagine (if you’ve never read the book) that the word nigger is use quite a few times throughout the book. You are a 16 year-old black...
by Candace | Mar 22, 2016 | News
The plot thickens in the Flint investigation. Michigan’s Governor, Snyder, is a real piece of work. During the Christmas holiday there was a break-in at the executive office in Flint and important documents relating to Flint’s water management were stolen. The crime...
by Candace | Mar 21, 2016 | Positivity
Nate Parker has been making some major moves. Recently he announced on tweeter that, at Wiley College, the Nate Parker School of Film and Drama will be launched. Yes that’s right this 36 year-old man has his own school. Nate Parker’s School of Film and Drama aspires...
by Krystal | Mar 20, 2016 | News, Politics News
According to WNCN, research has shown African-American men more likely to get pulled over in Durham compared to any other group of people. Studies were taken at RTI International, at the police department’s request, to see if racial bias played a factor. It was...
