by Forest Parks | Dec 2, 2015 | News
Wow, just wow, the Young Turks reported on yet another case of what seems like unjustice involving the police authorities. As we see protests happening and awareness rising things don’t really seem to be getting much better! Here is the video from The Young...
by Forest Parks | Dec 2, 2015 | News
As people start to stand up to the seeming rise in Police Brutality, institutional racism and as movements like Black Lives Matter gain momentum there is an ugly counter. White Supremacists seem to be showing their faces more and more and have gained a lot of comfort...
by Candace | Dec 1, 2015 | Opinion
Thomas Burke’s new career ended before it could even begin. Burke, former police chief of Farrell, Pennsylvania, had difficulty completing his assignment which for many would have been a breeze but for him was an epic fail. For his first assignment he was asked to...
by Forest Parks | Dec 1, 2015 | News
It’s just broke that at around 8am this morning the head of the Chicago Police Department Superintendent Garry McCarthy was called into the office by Mayor Rahm Emanuel and fired. Mayor Rahm Emanuel confirmed this in a press conference today, Tuesday 1st...
by Randall Barnes | Dec 1, 2015 | A List Categories, Blog, Culture, Greatest Hits, History, News, Opinion, Positivity
(Audio) We talk about the importance of ownership but never about the business connotation of “selling out”. Instagram, once a stand-alone company, sold out to Facebook back in 2012. Snapchat, on the other hand, decided to keep their sovereignty and...
by Forest Parks | Dec 1, 2015 | Blog, News
Protesters took to the streets of Chicago on Saturday to disrupt the Holiday shopping weekend. Blocking entrances for a while to stores in Chicago’s famous North Michigan Avenue shopping area to raise concerns over the killing of a black teen by a white police...
by Forest Parks | Dec 1, 2015 | Business
There is certainly a market gap in some communities for hard to find African and Caribbean grocery such as smoked goat, melon seeds and gari and now one entrepreneur has set up an app to delivery straight to the doors of those in Chicago. The app, OjaExpress, came...
by Forest Parks | Dec 1, 2015 | News
Last week protests erupted after dashcam footage showed Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke shooing 17-year-old Laquan McDonald 16 times. The officer was charged with first-degree murder and taken into custody. Now, around a week later, he has been released on a...
by Forest Parks | Dec 1, 2015 | News
As it should be, applying for a Concealed Carry License in Chicago is quite a rigorous process. You need to take training, pay a host of fees, get through background checks. The law is solid about who can and can’t own. However, you would expect, that if you...
by Forest Parks | Dec 1, 2015 | History
Who on earth is Black Pete? Many traditions are rooted in a not so nice past but one tradition of the holidays in Holland is so clearly racist that it’s a wonder that it’s allowed to be celebrated on such a wide scale. Every year Saint Nicholas arrives to...
