by Reneegede | Oct 20, 2014 | Opinion
UI Meme of the Day, a daily series… How to Be a True Diva in Real Life and Not a Simple-minded Reality Show One For whatever reason, I never imagined that the day would come when I would be that older lady of my childhood and younger days telling younger women how to...
by Reneegede | Oct 19, 2014 | Opinion
UI Meme of the Day, a daily series… This Sunday, this is not for the purpose of hate-mongering, this is simply a rhetorical question. And before you answer this one, keep in mind 9-11 and the false flag operation of a made up “war” in Iraq and Afghanistan...
by Reneegede | Oct 19, 2014 | Opinion
Part 3 of a 5-part series… [Part 2] Keynes General Theory (Employment, Interest and Money) Said Obama in 2009: “Consider the vicious cycles. Declining asset prices lead to margin calls and deleveraging which leads to selling, further declines in asset...
by Reneegede | Oct 18, 2014 | Opinion
UI Meme of the Day, a daily series… Urban Intellectuals (UI) is committed to spreading conscious knowledge to all Black people, indigenous people and African American people within the sound of us and within reach. We know that those who are with us and have stood by...
by Adetokunbo Fatoke, Ed.D. | Oct 18, 2014 | Culture, Positivity
Wednesday evenings are now known as “Black Wednesday” in my household. Akin to a national holiday, everything stops in observance of Black-ish. Yes, the television situational comedy (sitcom) Black-ish. At first, I, too, did not appreciate the name of the sitcom. The...
by Reneegede | Oct 17, 2014 | Opinion
This is a day that will live in infamy. At least for Black and African Americans. Rest in Power, Master Jordan Davis. Justice has FINALLY been done. Michael Dunn has been convicted and this day also given life in prison without possibility of parole, and the ancestors...
by Reneegede | Oct 17, 2014 | Opinion
Even if you have to defend yourselves against the police, do what you gotta do. Some folks don’t respect a damn thing BUT violence. It’s how they roll, it’s all they answer to, it is how they are wired, it is what they have taught others, it is the...
by Furious | Oct 17, 2014 | Culture, HBCU Pulse
Historically Black Colleges and Universities, or HBCUs as they are called, have been in the news lately for a variety of different reasons. Many of which have been lack of enrollment, the lack of funding, and questions about the curriculum if they are really and truly...
by Reneegede | Oct 17, 2014 | Opinion
UI Meme of the Day, a daily series… The continent of Africa and its ‘middle eastern’ (i.e., Northern African) partition -as mandated by Europeans- has been raided, looted, raped, ravaged, and pillaged for at least the past 500 or more years. For a...
by Reneegede | Oct 16, 2014 | Opinion
UI Meme of the Day, a daily series… Black women – always the womb, the wet nurse, the “belly” as Dr. Ameena Ali of the Bellies of Grracee (“grace”) Foundation would put it – of the world. We know that every time a child wants to go...
