by Koba | Jan 18, 2016 | Celebrities
I’m so happy that a black celebrity has come out to tell everyone in so many words to stop bit*ching and begging for their acceptance and celebrate your own. I swear it feels like so many of us still want to please the slave master and will cry when the slave...
by Forest Parks | Jan 18, 2016 | Culture
Dr. Hadiyah-Nicole Green is an amazing role model! As one of less than 100 black women physicists in the U.S. she is pushing forward with research and a plan for clinical trials that looks to drastically change the treatment of cancer and make it far less harmful. Her...
by Forest Parks | Jan 18, 2016 | News, Positivity
We all remember the viral hit of the smooth voiced Ted Williams. Can you believe this all happened five years ago! In 2011 Ted was asking for money at a traffic light intersection when he was found Doral Chenoweth, a videographer for the Columbus Dispatch in Columbus,...
by Forest Parks | Jan 18, 2016 | News, Positivity
To celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the federal holiday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The King Center will be celebrating at a special service at Ebenezer Baptist Church. This ends a week of events to celebrate the civil rights leader’s legacy and the...
by Forest Parks | Jan 18, 2016 | History, Modern History
MLK was of course a remarkable man and one of the most important in recent history. As today marks the 30th day of Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the United States we thought we would bring you a few lesser known facts. 1. He wasn’t born with the name Martin, his...
by Koba | Jan 17, 2016 | Celebrities
It is funny that everyone wants to boycott the Oscars because no one that was of color won. Get over it. The Oscars were not made for people of color. The issue is we keep begging for recognition from white people. Create your own and you don’t have to worry...
by Koba | Jan 17, 2016 | Modern History
The Constitution’s Second Amendment was created to bolster slavery and capture land from Native Americans, award winning actor Danny Glover told a group of students at a Texas A&M sponsored event on Thursday. Actor Danny Glover told students at Texas...
by Koba | Jan 17, 2016 | Black 365, Positivity
Richard Henry Boyd, born Dick Gray on March 5, 1843, the former slave renamed himself Richard Henry Boyd after the Civil War. Boyd eventually became an entrepreneur and wore many hats throughout his life—preacher, missionary, publisher, banker, educator, writer, and...
by Koba | Jan 17, 2016 | Blog, Business
All too often, African-American women dread washing their hair, since it can take multiple hours or even a whole day. Not only did entrepreneur Gwen Jimmere create a solution to this common inconvenience, but she is also the first and only African-American to hold a...
by Koba | Jan 17, 2016 | Black 365
Speaking at Liberty University Monday, self-proclaimed socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) declared that the United States was founded on “racist principles,” among other statements about the lack of justice and morality regarding income inequality. Sanders, who is...