by Reneegede | Aug 3, 2014 | Opinion
Grammy Award winning artist Usher has raised another $1,000,098,000.00 (One million ninety-eight thousand dollars) for his long-running organization, Usher’s “New Look.” The foundation takes youth from grade eight to post-secondary and prepares them...
by Reneegede | Aug 2, 2014 | Opinion
It’s an election year (Mid-terms 2014) and all of the snakes and serpents of olden times and ancient Eden raise their heads out of their dens and nests every election year, sniffing the air looking for trouble like old Beelzebul himself. They often come with...
by Furious | Aug 1, 2014 | News
This week, the President of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe reiterated his mandate that all white farmers had to give up their land and leave the country without compensation. Zimbabwe is not a place for white land owners. Period. According to AllAfrica, Mugabe was speaking at...
by Randall Barnes | Jul 31, 2014 | A List Categories, Blog, Business, News
“Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing.” -Vince Lombardi Like it or not, the world thrives on competition. We all have an inherent desire to be the best in the world at what we do. Our desire to be at the top of our field is the fuel that moves and...
by Reneegede | Jul 31, 2014 | Opinion
Ah, it wasn’t that long ago that MSNBC’s Toure got in some deep muckety-muck for using the words “The power of whiteness,” in response to a transgender “Jewish” female who said that her ancestors survived the Holocaust, came to...
by Reneegede | Jul 31, 2014 | Opinion
Wil (Wilner) Baptiste said that he and his partner, Kevin Sylvester, came into their career as violinists in different ways. “Kevin used to get in trouble in school and his mother forced him to take a Saturday music class, which is where he learned to play, but...
by Reneegede | Jul 29, 2014 | Opinion
It’s been interesting. To say the least. In the past few months, many of us Black folk throughout America have proudly managed to go on to mainstream social media, like Facebook and others, and shut down quite a few white racist operative “Tea...
by Reneegede | Jul 27, 2014 | Opinion
Prologue Two hundred million over five years does not promise to knock a ‘small dent’ in President Obama’s White House Initiative “My Brother’s Keeper,” but thanks to another $100 million -a recent booster shot investment- we not...
by Reneegede | Jul 25, 2014 | Opinion
“No longer will it be said in Jerusalem that the parents eat the sour grapes and the children’s teeth are set on edge.” (Jeremiah 31:29) Generational curses are prevalent in the Black community and have been since nearly the beginning of time. Maybe...
by Reneegede | Jul 25, 2014 | Opinion
Definition: Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing (P.T.S.S.) is a 2005 book by Joy DeGruy which describes a set of historical and transgenerational behaviors, beliefs and actions associated with or, related to...