by Candace | Jan 5, 2016 | Positivity
I make blankets! Sounds easy enough right? Not when you add on the fact that the blanket are for satellites in outer space. Sounds far-fetched? Well meet Paula Cain from Maryland, she designs “space blankets”. Cain started her career with NASA almost eight years ago...
by Freddie Ra | Jan 5, 2016 | Celebrities, News, Positivity
If you visit the city of Chicago, there is no doubt you will notice the growing population of homeless people sleeping outdoors. It is a sad sight to see that is compounded when you consider the frigid Chicago winters. How are they able to endure? Thanks to Chance The...
by Freddie Ra | Jan 5, 2016 | Celebrities
Is Saartjie Baartman Too Important of an Historical Figure for Beyonce To Write & Star in the Biopic? Update Feb 16, 2016: Beyonce’s 2016 Superbowl performance showed her blackness and support for the community. Many are wondering does this add to her...
by Freddie Ra | Jan 4, 2016 | News
A lot happened this weekend and you might have missed it between the new year celebrations, resolutions, recovery and general blind happiness of Americans these days. Out in Oregon, a group of white people got together and held a peaceful protest as they TOOK OVER A...
by Candace | Jan 3, 2016 | Positivity
Do you remember “the Central Park Five”, when five juvenile males of color were convicted of raping a female jogger in New York City’s Central Park in 1990? The Central Park Five were exonerated in 2002 when the real rapist turned himself in and DNA from the crime...
by Candace | Jan 3, 2016 | Positivity
Caesar Sant started playing the violin at the age of two. This prodigy speaks 7 languages, started doing multiplication at age 4 and has earned the Little Dragon’s black belt in Karate. He has achieved all of this while fighting sickle cell anemia. By the time Caesar...
by Reneegede | Jan 3, 2016 | Opinion
No veiled references this time … Professor Carl Tone Jones made one his infamous “riding along in my automobile” videos regarding the pettiness of Black people across the transom. #besafe #donttextanddrive. The gist of it was that the indescribable...
by Reneegede | Jan 3, 2016 | Opinion
“If a Black woman falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does she make a sound?” What is your take on this? Laws to Protect Women (VAWA) are falling apart… Sandra Bland Race Cop to Be Indicted for Perjury and...
by Reneegede | Jan 3, 2016 | Opinion
Last time I had contact with anyone closest to Dr Umar Johnson, we (myself and several other constituents that don’t need to be mentioned here) had formed a group of Black and concerned people trying to gather together to get the word out about saving St....
by Reneegede | Jan 2, 2016 | Opinion
Yesterday, I got the news through the grapevine to pray for Dr. Frances Cress Welsing, noted Psychologist and highly-acclaimed author of The Isis Papers, because she was on life support. I searched for news on her, but could find nothing on the Internet 24 hours ago...
